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Date: ca. 1857
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.77_1a.jpg?itok=TbBcHJVO width="339" height="276" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/parmly-sisters-21319"]] || Title: **The Parmly Sisters**

Artist: **Thomas P. Rossiter** Born: New Haven, Connecticut 1818 Died: Cold Spring, New York 1871

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 44 1/8 x 56 1/8 in. (112.0 x 142.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mrs. Mary Montagu Walke

Accession: 1986.77 || The Parmly sisters were the daughters of Dr. Eleazar Parmly, a prominent dentist in New York who was known as the “father of modern dentistry.” In this portrait, Louisa, on the left, holds a book of Beethoven’s music, and Julia, on the right, sits at the piano leafing through sheet music. Their sister Mary is in the center. In 1851, Thomas P. Rossiter married Anna Parmly, elder sister of these girls. Anna does not appear in this image because she had died shortly before it was made.
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