The catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 16, 1980 - January 4, 1981 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 30 - April 19, 1981. With 148 illustrations.

Benjamin West and his American Students

History

Dorinda Evans

Australia & Oceania

National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian

<p>During the years from 1796 to 1810, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) made some of the most memorable images in the history of American portraiture. Because of his unusually precise style and the multitude of sitters he portrayed, his distinctive profile portraits have come to epitomize Federal America.<br>Among his subjects were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Mother Seton, John Adams, and Paul Revere. Eventually Saint-Memin returned to France, leaving behind no successful imitators of his art. Among the most individualistic images from the Federal period, his profile portraits are a unique legacy to this nation.<br>This book documents all of the artist's portraits, as well as his landscapes, plans, and other engravings; and the portrait entries include short biographies of the subjects. The catalogue is preceded by an illustrated history of the neoclassical profile portrait in America, and a biography of the artist.</p>

Saint Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America

Arts & Photography

Ellen G. Miles

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Legacy highlights the relationship between Spain and the United States over an eight-five-year period that was marked by transformative events in the Americas and Europe. This bilingual volume, containing twelve illustrated essays by noted scholars in the field, also contains seventy-two full-color illustrations of the objects in the exhibition portraits, maps, documents, and treaties that focus on moments of significant political and economic intersection between Spain and the United States.

Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence (English and Spanish Edition)

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Carolyn Kinder Carr

Mercedes Águeda Villar

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