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Bequest of George Dudley Seymour, 1945.1.3  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
George Dudley Seymour
Bequest of George Dudley Seymour, 1945.1.3 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

George Dudley Seymour

Subject (American, 1859 - 1945)
Artist (American, born 1874)
Date1900-1905
MediumMiniature; watercolor on ivory in wooden frame
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width ): 3 5/16 x 2 1/8in. (8.3 x 5.4cm)
Frame (height x width x depth ): 6 5/16 x 4 7/8 x 7/16in. (16 x 12.3 x 1.1cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of George Dudley Seymour
DescriptionPortrait of a young boy with blue eyes and brown hair. He is wearing a white jacket with a standing collar and buttons that are center front and continue all the way to the neckline. The miniature is in a black wooden frame with gold leaf edging the portrait.
Object number1945.1.3
NotesObject Note: This is miniature is one of eight that George Dudley Seymour commisioned Mildred Jordan to paint, most based on various portraits in his possession. This is of Seymour himself as a boy, and he notes that, "Miss Jordan put me in a white suit in place of the suit I wore at the time when the photograph was taken."(Lee 10/24/2014)
On View
Not on view
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Electa Churchill Seymour
1900-1905
Gift of Florence Ogle, 1972.11.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
George Child
probably 1820s
Gift of Dorothy Filley Bidwell, 1956.4.114  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Alice Tillinghast
about 1910
Gift of Mrs. Harold Wilson Rogers, 1978.30.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Charles William Eldridge
early 1830s
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Hilda Margaret Peck
1900
Gift of Mrs. Harold Wilson Rogers, 1978.30.3 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Frances Rogers
probably 1830
Gift of C. Alfred Weatherby, 1929.2.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
James Bidwell Hosmer
1795-1810
Gift of William H. Bulkeley, 1964.12.2  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Loren Pinckney Waldo Jr.
probably 1838
Museum purchase, 1969.19.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
about 1800