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Mrs Richard Low Divine Born Susan Sophia Smith
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Cecilia Beaux
Painted by Cecilia Beaux, this portrait of Mrs Richard Low Divine, born Susan Sophia Smith, offers warm layered tones and attentive brushwork worth living with on a wall.
Description
Description
A private commission for a woman of standing in her community, this portrait belongs to the period when Cecilia Beaux had established herself among the most sought-after portraitists working in America, her sitters drawn from families who wanted likeness paired with dignity rather than mere flattery. The full name given in the title, Mrs Richard Low Divine, born Susan Sophia Smith, points to the conventions of the era: a married identity recorded alongside the maiden name that preceded it, a small act of biography folded into the picture itself.
About Mrs Richard Low Divine Born Susan Sophia Smith
Beaux builds the composition around a quiet balance, the sitter placed so that light falls across her face and gathers in the folds of her dress, revealing bone structure and bearing at once. The palette runs warm and layered, built up in successive passes that let earlier colours glow through later ones, a method that gives the skin its particular depth without resorting to obvious modelling. Brushwork stays visibly alive across the canvas, especially in passages of fabric and background, yet never loosens so far that the likeness softens or the presence of the sitter recedes.
This is the moment in the career of Beaux when her portraiture had settled into a confident, mature idiom, informed by her training in Philadelphia and Paris and sharpened by years of close observation. The result reads less as a formal record than as an encounter, the sitter regarded with a steadiness that borders on sympathy. Each hand-painted oil painting reproduction from ByMuseum is produced by a trained painter working in oil on artist-grade canvas, matching the original palette tone for tone and preserving the rhythm of the brushwork rather than flattening it into a printed surface. It is a handmade oil painting in the fullest sense, built layer by layer the way the original was, so the raised texture of paint and the warmth of the colour survive intact.
The hand-painted reproduction
What carries across most faithfully is the interplay of warm tone and confident touch that gives the sitter her presence, along with the particular density Beaux achieved in her layered oils, qualities that a hand-painted surface can hold in a way a flat print cannot.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, brushwork visibly preserved
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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