Artwork Details
- Title
- Samuel Hopkins Lambdin
- Artist
- Date
- 1850
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 4 3⁄8 x 3 1⁄2 in. (11.1 x 8.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Subjects
- Portrait male — Lambdin, Samuel H.
- Object Number
- 1978.162.3
Artwork Description
Samuel Hopkins Lambdin, the artist’s younger brother, was born in Pittsburgh, but settled in Natchez, Mississippi. He became president of the Planters Bank of Mississippi, and in 1865 served as a delegate to the Reconstruction Convention. This miniature was exhibited in 1911 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts tenth annual Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters show.