Artist
William Lydston Jr.
William Lydston Jr. is a Romanticism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.
William Lydston Jr. painted small watercolor portraits on ivory in the early 1840s. His delicate Portrait of a Child (1842) shows a young face with soft colors and fine details, typical of the period’s miniature portrait tradition. These tiny works were often kept in lockets or frames as keepsakes.
Tap Portrait of a Child to zoom in on the brushwork and see how light plays across the child’s features.
Works by William Lydston Jr.
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