Kathleen Langone is a freelance writer and historical researcher whose work has been published in regional New England publications such as Boston Magazine and various newspapers. She is also the host of People Hidden in History, a podcast that highlights fascinating people in the arts and politics who are unknown to the general public. She has been a speaker at museums, historical societies, libraries, the New York Adventure Club, and History Camp, and frequently presents on Amalia Kussner. She lives in Middleton, MA.
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Kathleen Langone presents an enchanting account of a late nineteenth-century art form: portraits of Gilded Age beauties, painted on ivory and often gold-framed. In an era of limited options for creative women, Amalia Kussner was renowned for the delicate beauty of her images. Kussner miniatures have been highly prized and collected by various institutions. Langone has intensively researched these delightful works of art, as well as the talented and tenacious artist herself. The Miniature Painter Revealed presents a little-known but immensely charming facet of Gilded Age feminine culture. ~Carol Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller To Marry an English Lord, an inspiration for Downton Abbey
Thoroughly engaging! Amalia Kussners rise to artistic stardom is a must-read for anyone interested in the achievements of women during the Gilded Age. ~Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport Mysteries
Lively and well-paced, Langones The Miniature Painter Revealed opens another portal into the Gilded Age—that of a bold, mysterious female artist and the aristocrats and elites who sat for her exquisite portraits. ~Esther Crain, founder of Ephemeral New York and author of The Gilded Age in New York, 1870–1910
Amalia Kussner’s perseverance opened the doors to royalty and society, but it was her talent that kept her there. The subjects she painted were a “Who’s Who” of the Gilded Age both in the United States and in Europe. Langone’s book restores Amalia to her rightful place in history. ~Richard Jay Hutto, Gilded Age historian and author of The Countess and the Nazis: An American Family’s Private War
"This is a topic I knew absolutely nothing about but I fell in love with miniature portraiture, Amalia Kussner, and Kathleen Langones storytelling—which draws us from the micro of one womans remarkable life to the macro of the Gilded Age and beyond." ~Lucy Jane Santos, author of Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium