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"Without Hands": The Art of Sarah Biffin
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Sarah Biffin was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’. Teaching herself to write and draw from a young age, Biffin rose to fame as an artist and established a professional career as a portrait painter. She travelled extensively, took commissions from royalty, and recorded her own likeness through exquisitely detailed self-portraits, many proudly signed ‘Without Hands’.
Title: "Without Hands": The Art of Sarah Biffin
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Sarah Biffin was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’.
Teaching herself to write and draw from a young age, Biffin rose to fame as an artist and established a professional career as a portrait painter.
She travelled extensively, took commissions from royalty, and recorded her own likeness through exquisitely detailed self-portraits, many proudly signed ‘Without Hands’.
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