Girl in White

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This portrait depicts Florence Irene Dimock, the daughter of a Connecticut silk merchant, but it also expresses Chase’s conception of refinement. He placed Dimock in a formal setting, gave her flamboyant studio props and depicted her with an air of seriousness that by all accounts did not match her fun-loving personality. His inspiration for the courtly style and dynamic painting technique of this work was the art of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velasquez, whose works Chase admired while studying in Europe.

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Dress
American
Upper Classes
Painting
Figure
Child
Girl