Henrietta Johnston

Henrietta Johnston
Known forPastel
Notable workin museums:
MovementRococo
Patron(s)William Rhett and others

Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (c. 1674[1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies,[2] and is the first portraitist known to have worked in what would become the southern United States.[3]

  1. ^ "Henrietta Johnston at the South Carolina Encyclopedia". Scencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  2. ^ Richard H. Saunders; Ellen Gross Miles; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1987). American colonial portraits, 1700–1776. Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery. ISBN 978-0-87474-695-2.
  3. ^ Elisabeth Louise Roark (2003). Artists of Colonial America. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-313-32023-1.