Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America

Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America examines the remarkable critical and popular resurgence of portraiture in the United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. On view at the New-York Historical Society through March 9, 2014, this exhibition features 65 paintings by artists such as John Singer Sargent, James Montgomery Flagg, and William Adolphe Bouguereau. These portraits depict some of the Gilded Age's most notable socialites, such as Mrs. William Waldorf Astor and concert singer Emma Cecilia Thursby:  http://nyhistory.org/exhibitions/beauty%E2%80%99s-legacy-gilded-age-portraits-america

George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813 –1894), Jeannie Ovington (1863-1926), 1887. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through Walter M. Brown, 1944.18