File:Portrait of Linn Boyd.jpg

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English: Portrait of Linn Boyd from The Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Dimensions 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm) Framed: 45 x 40 in. (114.3 x 101.6 cm) Accession Number 2005.016.020

New York portrait artist Stanley Middleton likely based the 1911 portrait of Linn Boyd on a print of the Speaker from the 1840s. This work was among those commissioned to replace fragile works on paper in the House Collection. Middleton was trained at Académie Julien in Paris and had a successful career as a portrait artist.
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Author Stanley Grant Middleton

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