Portrait of Lydia Pickering Williams (1735/6-1826) seated by a red curtained window. She is wearing a ruffled white lace cap and sheer muslin fichu over a black dress. This is one of three portraits of Lydia Pickering Williams painted by Gilbert Stuart. Carved gilt frame.
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Painting
Williams, Lydia Pickering, 1735/6-1824
Stuart, Gilbert (American painter, 1755-1828) (Artist)
Boston, MA
48 x 39 1/2 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Mary Elizabeth Sears Baring-Gould
2005.19
Massachusetts (United States)
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