1513231825Deborah Goldsmith18081836DeborahGoldsmithhttps://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4842/fullDeborah Goldsmith had an uncommon career for her era, working as professional female painter in the environs of her hometown in Brookfield, New York, in the 1820s. She primarily painted friends and family, although her surviving friendship albums also show her interest in copying prints. Most of her extant work is in watercolor, but as this group shows, she also painted in oil. She may have worked as a milliner at one point. She stopped painting professionally upon her marriage, and like her husband, died young, in 1836 at the age of just twenty-eight.(1808–1836)North BrookfieldNorth BrookfieldNorth BrookfieldDeborah GoldsmithDeborah Goldsmith Throop