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Interior with Portraits
is an 1865
genre scene
painted by American artist
Thomas Le Clear
, commissioned by
Franklin Sidway
. It features Sidway's siblings, James and Parnell, posing for a photograph in an artist's studio. The children were painted posthumously based on family
daguerreotypes
, and the painting has been read as representing the tension between its medium and the emergent medium of photography.
Interior with Portraits
is held by the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
in
Washington, D.C.
Painting:
Thomas Le Clear
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