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Accession #	11.549
Artist	Henry Inman
Title	Mrs. Robert Lowden
Date	ca. 1840
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	32 11/16 x 25 in. (83 x 63.5 cm)
Signed	Unsigned
Credit Line	Gift of Mrs. W. W. Thayer
Location	Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen H (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: In this portrait, most likely commissioned to celebrate the sitter’s marriage to Robert Lowden, Henry Inman lavishly rendered Jane Lowden in a red velvet gown. Such flattering likenesses, captured with exuberant fluidity, made Inman one of the most popular midcentury portraitists. Despite his success, Inman felt somewhat stifled by the “rage for portraits” and wished he could devote more time to painting landscapes or genre scenes, subjects that he considered of “higher and purer taste.”