Title: Painting and portrait making in the American Northeast /
Authors: Benes, Peter.; Benes, Jane Montague.; Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. 1994 :
Publisher: Boston University,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Portraits, American New England Congresses.; Portrait painting, American New England Congresses.; Portrait painters New England History Congresses.; New England Social life and customs Congresses.
Contents: Seventeenth century Boston portraiture : profile of the establishment / by Abbott Lowell Cummings -- The emergence of the portrait miniature in New England / by Carol Aiken -- The brothers Blyth : Salem in its heyday / by Bettina A. Norton -- The portraits of Richard and William Jennys and the story of their wayfaring lives / by William Bright Jones -- Frederick Mayhew, "Limner": portraits of early nineteenth century New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard / by Andrew L. Thomas -- New England and New York portrait makers in Canada, 1760-1860 / by Lydia Foy -- 1802 : the year of the physiognotrace / by Ellen G. Miles -- Machine assisted portrait and profile imaging in New England after 1803 / by Peter Benes -- William J. Weaver's secret art of multiplying pictures / by Paul D. Schweizer -- The portrait painter and engraver : cooperation and conflict / by Leah Lipton -- "The rising prospect or the lovely face" : conventions of gender in colonial American portraiture / by Deborah I. Prosser.