Art gallery brings together historic duo
George and Martha Washington are finally reunited — at the Yale University Art Gallery.
The gallery recently acquired an 1801 miniature painting of George Washington by British painter Robert Field. The watercolor on ivory miniature is the complement of a miniature of Martha Washington already owned by the Art Gallery. The purchase, made through the Boston auctioneers Skinner, cost Yale $303,000.
This miniature of George Washington was commissioned upon his death by Martha Washington as part of a series of family miniatures intended to commemorate the loss of beloved...
