
Portrait of a Lady
1842 · Watercolor on ivory
3 1/4 x 2 9/16 in. (8.4 x 6.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edward Dalton Marchant (1806-1887), also known as Edward D. Marchant and E. D. Marchant, was an American artist. He was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts in 1806. Largely self-taught, Marchant began his career as a house painter, establishing a portrait studio in Edgartown by the mid-1820s.
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