"A Lady"
after Henrietta Johnston
I have long been inspired by the the life and art of Henrietta Johnston, C. 1674-1729. She is sometimes referred to as America's first professional female artist, helping to support her family with her work after moving here from Ireland; I've always loved her work, and made this pendant with great respect for her and her memory. Many of her original pastel portraits are in the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Winston-Salem, NC. Henrietta worked in "crayon," as pastels were called then--a relatively unusual medium until the latter part of the 18th C.--but none other than John Singleton Copley himself copied one of her portraits, of Thomas Amory, in the 1750s. My original was done to illustrate Mara Riley's book, Whatever Shall I Wear.
A Lady Pendant: lightly hand-tinted, silverplate mount, 1-7/8" tall.
Price - $25.00
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