Sarah Lloyd Taylor

Artist Abraham P. Demarest

Periodca. 1825-1835

MediumPencil on paper

DimensionsImage: 3 × 3.5 in. (7.6 × 8.9 cm)
Frame: 5.5 × 5 in. (14 × 12.7 cm)

InscribedPencil inscription on verso cardboard backing "Sarah Taylor/1779-1852 / Taylor."

Markings"35" stamped in upper left corner of frame back.

ClassificationsPortrait Miniatures & Silhouettes

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, 1940

Object number1983.533

DescriptionProfile portrait of Sarah Lloyd Taylor (1779-1852), approximately 56 years of age, facing left. She wears an elaborate white day cap with ruffles and bows, with a profile orientation allowing an unusual view of the back construction of day cap. Sarah wears a wide collar with ruffled edge, and her dark dress includes a highly detailed glimpse of her gathered and tucked bodice construction and exceptionally full sleeves. White vertical bands down the bodice front may be streamers or ribbons.
Curatorial RemarksThe portrait subject is Sarah Lloyd Taylor, born 3 October 1779, daughter of Ann Longstreet Lloyd and John Lloyd of Imlaystown. Sarah married Captain Edward Taylor of Middletown in 1798. Sarah Lloyd Taylor died in 1852.NotesThis portrait has been attributed to Abraham P. Demarest (1793-1869), who is likely to have been the itinerant artist working in and around the Middletown, Monmouth County area ca. 1835. More than twenty pencil profile portraits have been identified as the same artist. Demarest later appears in New York City directories, his profession noted as that of engraver, die sinker, and seal engraver.

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