Ellen G. Miles Books
Saint-Memin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America
By Ellen Gross Miles, MILES ELLEN G
During the years from 1796 to 1810, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) made some of the most memorable images in the history of American portraiture. Because of his unusuall...
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A Brush with History
By Ellen G. Miles, Carolyn Kinder Carr, National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution
"Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from t...
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