Painting and Portrait Making in the American Northeast (1994)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1994. 

Arts of portraiture in the early colonies; New England portrait and miniature painters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; imaging and reproduction technologies before 1850; studies of gender, iconography, and aesthetics; portrait making in the era of daguerreotypes and photographs. Bibliography, appendices. 288 pp. 95 halftone illustrations. Click here to view Table of Contents.