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ABOUT
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.Beauty Revealed, Goodridge's famous portrait miniature of her own bosom, inspired a plot element in the 2008 work Blindspot: A Novel.She was a contemporary of the English portrait painter Thomas Sully.
BEFORE FAMEA self-taught painter, she began her career in the early 1820s while living in Boston.
PERSONAL LIFEBorn in Templeton, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer and Beulah Goodridge, she grew up with five older siblings, including a sister named Eliza.
FUN FACTSPainter Sarah Goodridge were born on Tuesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 27 days until Sarah Goodridge next birthday.
