{"id":14169,"date":"2014-04-12T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2014-04-12T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:24:18","slug":"beauty-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/beauty-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Beauty Revealed<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Beauty_Revealed_Sarah_Goodridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14170\" alt=\"Beauty_Revealed_Sarah_Goodridge\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Beauty_Revealed_Sarah_Goodridge.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Beauty_Revealed_Sarah_Goodridge.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Beauty_Revealed_Sarah_Goodridge-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Boston, Massachusetts, 1828<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/works-of-art\/2006.235.74\" target=\"_blank\">image<\/a> of this exquisite <em>miniature<\/em> yesterday (6.7 cm x 8 cm, watercolour on ivory), and was intrigued to find out about its origin.<\/p>\n<p>Painted as a self-portrait by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Goodridge\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Goodridge<\/a> and given to statesman Daniel Webster after his wife died\u00a0(Webster sat as a model for Sarah twelve times over two decades), it presents a provocative twist on the &#8220;traditional lover&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/tips\/loverseyes.html\" target=\"_blank\">eye miniatures<\/a> so popular in London&#8221; at the time. <em>I know it would have gotten my attention&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Below is another watercolour-on-ivory self-portrait miniature done by Sarah (who never did marry) two years later, in 1830 (10.2 cm x 7.6 cm).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miniature_Sarah_Goodridge_Self_Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14172\" alt=\"Miniature_Sarah_Goodridge_Self_Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miniature_Sarah_Goodridge_Self_Portrait.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miniature_Sarah_Goodridge_Self_Portrait.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Miniature_Sarah_Goodridge_Self_Portrait-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, Massachusetts, 1828 I came across an image of this exquisite miniature yesterday (6.7 cm x 8 cm, watercolour on ivory), and was intrigued to find out about its origin. Painted as a self-portrait by Sarah Goodridge and given to statesman Daniel Webster after his wife died\u00a0(Webster sat as a model for Sarah twelve times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14174,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}