My colleague at the Fairfax County Park Authority has asked me to invite
you to attend the symposium described below.
If you know someone who would be interested, please share the details. I
believe there are portions of the program that would be of use to
genealogists as well as historians.



> "A Very Good Likeness": Portraits in Early America, 1750-1860
> Friday, March 28, 2003
> Fairfax County Park Authority and George Mason University
> 
> Presentations and Speakers
>                       Facing the Past: Portrait Painting in Early
> America 
>               Maurie D. McInnis, University of Virginia
> 
>               The Silhouette in the Early Republic 
>               Anne Verplanck, Winterthur Museum
> 
>               American Daguerreotype Portraiture and the Art of 
>               Augustus Washington 
>               Ann M. Shumard, The National Portrait Gallery
> 
>               Fashion in Portraiture: Ideals and Realities 
>               Kristina Haugland, Philadelphia Museum of Art
> 
> Tabletop Exhibits and Demonstrations 
>           Portrait Miniatures - Katherine G. Eirk, Conservation
> Services
>                    Early Photographic Images - Clifford Krainik
>                    Period Paintings - David Olin,
>                     Costume based on Portraits - Joyce McDonald
> 
>                    Portrait Frames - Bill Adair, Gold Leaf Studios
>                    Silhouettes and Profiles - Nel and Helen Laughon
> 
>       To register:
> Phone Historic Collections at (703) 631-1429.    
> Fax Historic Collections to (703) 631-8319
> 
> Prepaid registrations are required and must be postmarked by March 14,
> 2002 
> Fee: $55.00 (Includes parking and lunch)
> 
> 

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