“A Perfect _likeness”:
FOLK PORTRAITS AND EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
PART OF FENIMORE ART MUSEUM’S
ANNUAL AMERICANA SERIES
NOW THRU DEC. 31, 2015 Discover how early photography contributed to the demise of folk portraiture in the 1840s-50s. See how and why the public embraced this new technology, making painted portraits virtually obsolete, by creating what artists and daguerreans alike called “a perfect likeness.”
Elizabeth Phillips Storm, ca. 1845, Ammi Phillips, oil on canvas. Fenimore Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton E. Weber. Seated Young Girl Working on an Album (American, ca. 1845-50). Tinted sixth plate daguerreotype. Collection of Jane Katcher.
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