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Catherine Douw Gansevoort (Mrs. Johannes DePeyster) Douw (1782-1848)
Attributed to Maria Louisa Wagner (1816-1888)
Artist
1842-1843
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Watercolor on ivory
Medium
3 5/8 H x 3 W
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Gift of Leontine de Kay Townsend (Mrs. John Townsend) Lansing, granddaughter of the subject
Credit
1908.8.2
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, Albany residents commissioned portrait miniatures. Among the best-known area painters of miniatures were Anson Dickinson and the brother-and-sister team of Daniel Wagner and Maria Louisa Wagner. This portrait is attributed to Maria Louisa Wagner, who began as an itinerant painter and eventually gained national prominence.
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