Lydia Longacre

Lydia Eastwick Longacre (September 1, 1870 – June 19, 1951) was an American painter known especially for her portrait miniatures.

Born in New York City, Longacre was the granddaughter of James Barton Longacre and the daughter of Reverend Andrew Longacre, both of whom had successfully pursued careers as miniature painters. She took lessons at the Art Students League of New York. Among her instructors was William Merritt Chase and Harry Siddons Mowbray; she then traveled to Paris, where she studied considering James Abbott McNeill Whistler at the Académie Carmen. Her sister Breta moreover became a painter. She exhibited taking into consideration the American Society of Miniature Painters, whose Levantia White Boardman Award for best miniature she time-honored in 1949, and like the Old Lyme Art Association in Connecticut. She died in Old Lyme, and is buried in the family Plan at Philadelphia's Woodlands Cemetery.on of the Smithsonian American Art Museum by a miniature portrait of Rosina Cox Boardman, a watercolor upon ivory dating to 1937; a miniature portrait in the thesame medium of Bruce Crane, painted in 1931, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Four of her paintings are currently accompanied by the holdings of Old Lyme's Florence Griswold Museum.