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Sturgis

1915
watercolor on ivory
5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (15 x 8 cm)
Gift of Charles A. Gilday, 2016.24.3

Lucia Fairchild Fuller
American
1872–1924

Owing to the garden setting, the full-length pose, and the elaborate frame, this miniature seems more akin to a small easel painting than to the intimate portraits of the pre-Civil War era. Designed to be hung on the wall, it was exhibited in the 1915 annual exhibition of the American Society of Miniature Painters held at the National Academy of Design in New York. The sitter’s identity beyond his first name is not known.

Born into a wealthy, well-connected Boston family, Lucia Fairchild Fuller studied with several notable artists in Boston and New York, including William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox. In 1899 she was a founding member of the American Society of Miniature Painters, where she regularly exhibited, becoming its president in 1913. She was also an influential teacher. She and her husband, Henry Brown Fuller, spent summers in Cornish, New Hampshire and became part of the art colony there, which included Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Maxfield Parrish. In 1918 she gave up her career due to illness.


Exhibition
1915 National Academy of Design

2018 "Intimate Keepsakes: American Portrait Miniatures, a Gift from Charles A. Gilday" Currier Museum of Art. March 17 - Dec. 3, 2018

Provenance
Currier, 2016
Charles Gilday
Marika's Antiques, Boston

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