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Preview image of work. gouache on off-white laid paper mounted on wood panel, Portrait of Sarah Prince 7336

1968.69

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Portrait of Sarah Prince

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Artist

Michele-Felice Cornè (Italy, ca. 1752-1757 - 1845)

Title

Portrait of Sarah Prince

Creation Date

1803

Century

early 19th century

Dimensions

10 15/16 in. x 9 in. (27.78 cm x 22.86 cm)

Object Type

watercolor

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gouache on off-white laid paper mounted on wood panel

Credit Line

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gift of George Osgood Cutter, Class of 1927

Copyright

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Accession Number

1968.69

Michele-Felice Cornè emigrated from Naples, Italy, to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1800. One way he supported himself was by painting portraits, renowned for their vibrant colors, a quality associated with European rather than American painters of this period. While in Salem he depicted Sarah Prince, a member of a local seafaring family. Cornè could not sustain a livelihood from portraiture alone, however; so he appealed to a broader clientele by painting decorative murals on the walls of rooms. The marine and landscape scenes Cornè painted in the Sullivan Dorr House (Providence, Rhode Island) are some of America’s finest. Porter worked for a different class of clientele but followed a similar path, traveling to Providence and borrowing some of Corné’s mural motifs for his own designs.

Keywords: portraits