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The Flower Girl  1846

by Charles C. Ingham

"The Flower Girl" is a highly unusual subject for Ingham, an artist who rarely strayed from portraiture. He may have painted it as a speculative work, or on commission from Jonathan Sturges, who owned the work by the time it appeared on exhibition in the spring of 1847 at the National Academy of Design. Images of street vendors were popular in American and European paintin...
Size: 
36 x 28 3/8 in. (91.4 x 72.1 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art