TitleVirginia Benedict
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MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 36 × 48 in.
Framed: 42 1/8 × 54 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Alice Benedict (Mrs. George) Seligman, 1942
Object number312-P
Label TextJames Milton Benedict, father of the subject, to his son James Benedict. James Benedict to his daughter, Alice Benedict Seligman.Virginia Benedict (1844-1849) was the daughter of James Milton Benedict and Mary Augusta Mead. The short life of Virginia Benedict, the bucolic setting, the allegorical implications of the vine-covered pilaster and the lamb, all suggest that the portrait was executed posthumously. As with the portrait of Blanch Benedict, the attribution of this portrait remains problematic and is discussed in the previous entry.
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