TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Lydia Field Emmet
(1866 - 1952)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 in.
Framed: 34 1/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 in.
SignedSigned at upper right: "Lydia Field Emmet".
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, March 4, 1912
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number417-P
Label TextLydia Field Emmet came from a family of politicians and artists, and her older sister Rosina and cousin Ellen Emmet also pursued artistic careers. Her formal art education began in 1884, when she and Rosina went to Paris and entered the woman's class at the Academie Julian. In the early 1890s she began concentrating on portraiture, and it was in that area that she established a highly successful career. She produced miniatures as well as full-scale portraits. Her sitters were men and women prominent in business, education, and society. Perhaps her most celebrated subject was Mrs. Herbert Hoover, whose official White House portrait she executed.Collections
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