Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"More formal portraits are represented in daguerreotype copies of paintings of Joseph Leland of Saco and Ezekiel Day of Portland."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"The unframed portrait shows a man in formal clothing writing with a quill pen. The painting style is reminiscent of the Readfield artist Jonathan…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… less formal and more creative in composing studio portraits. In an ambrotype, little Eleanor Bradley Peters proudly wears her large fur lined…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… seated between a trompe l’oeil doorway and window. The window drapery is rendered in a manner reminiscent of those found in primitive portraits."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… seems as much a collection of individual portraits as it does a group picture. The inscription on the reverse that “This picture is to be given to…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"… late-eighteenth to early-nineteenth century portraits by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough and Henry Raeburn."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"… 1, to page 73 John Martin (1823-1904) begins his formal accounting of his life and experiences with a genealogy of his and his wife's families…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… instructors, and some in academies or more formal settings. When Martin was 12, he was apprenticed to Dr."