Cover of the comic Sarah Goodridge: A Life in Miniatures. Illustrated by Susie O'Connor.
Born in 1788, Sarah Goodridge grew up in poverty. Without any financial resources, she created her first artworks using a pin on birch bark. With her passion and hard work, she became a highly sought-after miniature painter, opening her own studio where she painted prominent members of Boston society.
This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Inspired by graphic novels, these short takes on artists’ lives were each drawn by a student-illustrator from the Ringling College of Art and Design.
We invite you to read the comic and share with your friends and young people in your life.
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Sarah Goodridge
Sarah Goodridge studied with Gilbert Stuart, and often painted miniature copies of his portraits. Although she remained unmarried, Goodridge fell in love with orator Daniel Webster, and visited him twice in Washington, during the winters of 1828 and 1841.