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Philadelphia dealer Elle Shushan displayed 200 American, English and Continental portrait miniatures by appointment in her stately quarters in The Phoenix, the landmark 1925 residence with views of Logan Square and City Hall.

 

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Elle Shushan sipped tea with guests. Prinny, right, was worn out from his exertions as host.

 

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From left, Philadelphia Museum of Art curators Carol E. Soltis, Mark Mitchell and Kathleen Foster, the Robert L. McNeil Jr curator of American art and director of the museum’s Center for American Art, with Elle Shushan, right, who showed portrait miniatures by appointment during Antiques Week in Philadelphia.

 

 

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At Home With Elle Shushan

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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — A collector of people large and small, portraits specialist Elle Shushan entertained friends, colleagues and customers during Antiques Week in Philadelphia at her stately rooms in The Phoenix, the landmark Georgian Revival residence overlooking Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

The dealer, who arrayed nearly 200 miniatures in a by-invitation-only viewing, ticked off sales of works by John Wesley Jarvis, George Chinnery, William Lovett and Christian Greiner, among others. Especially sensational were Raphaelle Peale’s tiny likenesses of Dr Lyman Spalding, a co-founder of Dartmouth College medical school, and Elizabeth Coues Spalding, his wife.

Shushan is working with Philadelphia collectors Robert and Kathy Booth on the 2009 Philadelphia Antiques Show loan exhibition, “Patriots and Presidents: Philadelphia Portrait Miniatures, 1750–1860.”

For information, www.portrait-miniatures.com.