Sarah Goodridge

ABOUT SARAH GOODRIDGE

Famous for her miniature portraits, this nineteenth-century American artist is most well known for her images of Rhode Island painter Gilbert Stuart and United States Senator and Secretary of State Daniel Webster . She is also remembered for an intimate 1828 self-portrait titled Beauty Revealed.

A self-taught painter, she began her career in the early 1820s while living in Boston.

Beauty Revealed, Goodridge's famous portrait miniature of her own bosom, inspired a plot element in the 2008 work Blindspot: A Novel.

Born in Templeton, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer and Beulah Goodridge, she grew up with five older siblings, including a sister named Eliza.

She was a contemporary of the English portrait painter Thomas Sully .