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Mourning Locket for A. R., Unidentified, ca. 1780

Unidentified

Mourning Locket for A. R.

ca. 1780 · Painting-Miniature · 4 × 2.2 cm

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Unknown

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since
Source
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About the painting

Miniature paintings memorializing a friend or family member grew popular in the nineteenth century when the death of Prince Albert sent Queen Victoria into deep mourning. A name and death date on a locket, pin, or ring marked the passing of a loved one, and artists sometimes mixed a lock of the deceased person’s hair in with the pigment. The paintings often showed the bereaved person next to a tomb or cinerary urn, as in Mourning Locket for A. R. and Mourning Ring for William Burnside, and sometimes included symbols of grieving such as a dove or weeping willow.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Particulars

Accession number
1938.7.1

What it shows

TreeLandscapePrimitiveFigure femaleSorrowWillow treeState of beingMourning

In the catalog

PaintingsWatercolourNeoclassicism18th century

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