Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress. A white tassel hangs down above the child from a nearby curtain.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

Joshua Johnson · c. 1805

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Dark chocolate
35% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.1:1

Raw umber
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Stone
20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

Pine
10% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.2:1

Sepia
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1

Taupe
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.5:1

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Artist: Joshua Johnson
Date: c. 1805
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 82.9 × 72.8 cm (32 5/8 × 28 5/8 in.)
Place: Baltimore
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Timm R. Reynolds and Jill Burnside Zeno; Bulley and Andrews, Edna Graham, Love Galleries, Mary Swissler Oldberg, Ratcliffe Foundation, and Quinn E. Delaney funds; Walter Aitken, Dr. Julian Archie, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Herst, Jay W. McGreevy, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Puth, Stone Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker, Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection and Ruth Helgeson. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

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