Lydia Eastwick Longacre (1870-1951)
- Lydia Eastwick Longacre (1870-1951)
- Study in Copper and Gold
- Watercolor
- 4 ½ x 3 ½ inches
- Signed and titled verso
- Lydia E. Longacre was born in New York City in 1870 to Lydia Anne Longacre and Andrew Longacre, a clergyman. Her parents came from prominent Philadelphia families. Her paternal grandfather, James Barton Longacre, was a respected portrait painter and engraver. He worked as the chief engraver at the United States Mint in Philadelphia for over a decade. Her father was also a skilled engraver and watercolorist. Rev. Longacre served in a number of churches in
- Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York before attending the pastorate at the Madison Avenue Methodist Church in New York City. After he retired from the clergy he spent his free time painting miniatures.
