A Lady in white dress with black hair swept up sitting in an interior with red tablecloth and flowers

A student and subsequent member of the National Academy, Henry Colton Shumway (1807-1884) worked as a portrait painter and miniaturist from 1830 to 1860 almost exclusively in New York City. After 1860, Shumway worked principally coloring portrait photographs. (G and W, p. 578; Johnson, American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection (New York, 1990), p. 202).