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Anna Watson Stuart

ca. 1862
Not on view
Huntington was the preferred portraitist of respectable New York society during the 1860s. Here Mrs. Joseph L. (Anna Watson) Stuart (1817-1881), wife of an Irish-born dry goods merchant turned banker, is seated in a lush landscape. She is dressed in fashionable ermine and laces, and on her right wrist she wears a cameo bracelet, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. This family heirloom, now in a private collection, is Saint-Gaudens’s most ambitious extant cameo project, featuring six portraits— Mr. (1803-1874) and Mrs. Stuart and their four children Anna (1840-1902), Joseph Jr. (1843-1890), Margaret (1845-1932), and Robert Watson (1847-1920). Each cameo is set in a gold mount with a shell pearl border.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Anna Watson Stuart
  • Artist: Daniel Huntington (American, New York 1816–1906 New York)
  • Date: ca. 1862
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Denny Brereton, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.55.2
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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