A Conversation for Art History 101: Photobombing, 1776
My only guess was that the lady was Martha Washington
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation May 5, 2020
I simply can't think of very many other women of that age from that era.
I don't think the portrait looks like Betsy Ross.
Probably not Abigail Adams, at least in 1776.
Okay, it doesn't have to be an American woman, but why note that it was 1776?
My only guess was that the lady was Martha Washington
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted May 6, 2020
Because that was the date on the painting. 
My only guess was that the lady was Martha Washington
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 16, 2020
Do you know who the lady was?
My only guess was that the lady was Martha Washington
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted May 16, 2020
No. The Cleveland Museum has a guess: 'The drawing may represent a relative of the 18th-century French poet Louis Gresset (1709-1777).'
It's just called 'Seated Woman with Cat'.
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.396
My only guess was that the lady was Martha Washington
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 16, 2020
Fair enough.
I can still dream about Martha Washington and Betsy Ross, though, chatting about flag designs and dishing the dirt about various affairs that some of the leading statesmen were having -- Alexander Hamilton, mistress, and Thomas Jefferson making furtive visits to the apartment under the stairs where Sally Hemings was staying. Things like that. 
The fact that Sally had no more children after jefferson's daughter moved into Monticello tells me something. 
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