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A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century. A silhouette (English: / ˌ s ɪ l u ˈ ɛ t /, [1] French:) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the ...
Isabella Beetham, Miss Chambers, ivory miniature portrait, after 1782, Metropolitan Museum of Art. She then studied portrait painting in London with John Smart, who was a successful miniature portrait artist. Beetham painted silhouette portraits on a white background, such as plaster, [1] and often on glass.
Bache produced thousands of silhouette portraits using a physiognotrace between 1803 and 1812. [9] The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery acquired an album of his work in 2002 but conservationists discovered the pages were infused with arsenic, which made it poisonous to touch.
Portrait of August Edouart, 19th century. Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialised in silhouette portraits.
Silhouette of Moses Williams Moses Williams (c. 1777 – c. 1825) was an African-American visual artist who was particularly well known as a maker of silhouettes . He was formerly enslaved by the artist Charles Willson Peale .
Jane Beetham Read (pronounced: [dʒeɪn biːθʔm riːd]) (c. 1773 – 16 January 1857) was an English portrait painter who began by working in the studio of her mother, Isabella Beetham, painting silhouette portraits in the 1790s.
Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston, 19th century Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian) Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
The sitter's face was recorded as a black silhouette. In 1785, Miers writes on the back of one of his images promoting the process: “preserves the most exact Symmetry and animated expression of the Features, much Superior to any other Method.