Jane E. Bartlett

Jane E. Bartlett painted portraits of sitters from late-19th-century New York society in precise oil paint. Her brush captured the lace collars, dark suits, and serious faces of the era, as seen in Sarah Cowell LeMoyne (1877). Though little else is known about her life, her surviving work sits squarely in the realistic portrait tradition of the Gilded Age. Look for the quiet intensity in the folds of a gown or the grip of a gloved hand. Tap Sarah Cowell LeMoyne to step into the parlor of 1870s New York.