Polly Street Webb Vincent
 by James Reid Lambdin, circa 1860.

Another miniature of Polly Vincent, also by James Reid Lambdin, is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.

 

A collection label with this portrait indicates that it was sold in 1949 by Kende Gallery, attributed to George C. Lambdin, James Reid Lambdin's son.

 

Set in the original cast foliate gilt mount.

 

3 3/8 inches high.

 

James Reid Lambdin (1807-1889,) when only twenty, was called by William Dunlap "the best painter on the western side of the Alleghenies."  A native of Pittsburgh, in 1823, Lambin traveled to Philadelphia to study with Edward Miles and Thomas Sully.  He worked in Natchez and Louisville before settling permanently in Philadelphia in 1837.  Lambdin was an officer of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he exhibited from 1824-1868, and an Honorary Member of the National Academy of Design.  His sitters included Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,  Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.