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Grace Hamilton McIntyre
1878-1962
Watercolor on ivory.
image, maximum dimensions: 2 7/8 x 2 7/16 inches (73 x 60 mm), oval; frame, maximum dimensions: 3 3/16 x 2 11/16 inches (79 x 67 mm), oval
Bequest of Mrs. Lois McIntyre Darling, 1991.
AZ085
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This portrait demonstrates how McIntyre adapted the traditional methods and materials of miniature painting to embrace modern style and subjects. By the eighteenth century the practice of painting miniatures on vellum was replaced by the technique of watercolor on ivory, which enhanced the life-like vibrancy of the sitters. The young woman depicted here may be the same model that McIntyre painted in profile in a square miniature in which she appears to be a few years younger (see AZ086).
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The artist; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Lois MacIntyre Darling; her bequest to the Library, 1991.
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