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Maker(s):Elmer, Edwin Romanzo
Culture:American (1850 - 1923)
Title:Portrait of My Brother
Date Made:circa 1875
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts
Measurements:stretcher: 11 x 10 7/8 in.; 27.94 x 27.6225 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1963.92
Credit Line:Bequest of Maud V. Elmer, daughter of Samuel Elmer, the sitter, and niece of the artist
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
man; architecture; portrait

Label Text:
This portrait of the artist’s older brother, Samuel Elmer, was painted when the artist was about age twenty-two. The trefoil arch in the background, a tracery from Giotto’s campanile in Florence, Italy, was copied from John Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture.

Subjects:
Canvas

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