Elizabeth Goodridge

1798 (age 84)

Templeton, Massachusetts , United States

She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Eliza"s earliest miniatures date from the late 1820s and are similar in style to her sister"s work, although not as technically advanced. At an early age, she began drawing and showed an aptitude for art Women"s educational opportunities were limited at the time and where Goodridge lived, so she was essentially a self-taught artist. In 1849, at the age of fifty-one, Goodridge married Colonel Ephriam Stone, who owned a general store and sawmill in Templeton. The American Antiquarian Society"s portrait collection contains the largest representation - 12 images - of Eliza Goodridge"s known work. The Worcester Art Museum also houses several of Goodridge"s miniatures. Goodridge"s landscapes include View of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts and the Connecticut River, ca. 1827, and View of Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1824, in the Worcester Art Museum.

Elizabeth Goodridge

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Background

Goodridge was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs.

Career

She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Eliza"s earliest miniatures date from the late 1820s and are similar in style to her sister"s work, although not as technically advanced. At an early age, she began drawing and showed an aptitude for art

Women"s educational opportunities were limited at the time and where Goodridge lived, so she was essentially a self-taught artist.

In 1849, at the age of fifty-one, Goodridge married Colonel Ephriam Stone, who owned a general store and sawmill in Templeton. The American Antiquarian Society"s portrait collection contains the largest representation - 12 images - of Eliza Goodridge"s known work.

The Worcester Art Museum also houses several of Goodridge"s miniatures. Goodridge"s landscapes include View of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts and the Connecticut River, ca.

1827, and View of Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1824, in the Worcester Art Museum.

Membership

She lived in Templeton, Massachusetts, and made several extended trips to Worcester in the 1830s and 1840s, during which time she lived with and painted members of the Foster Family.

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