Aramenta Dianthe Vail

Two portraits by Vail, both of children, are currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A pair of portraits, once thought to be of the artist and her son, belong to the Cincinnati Art Museum. Portrait of a Young Man dates to the same time frame. Another portrait, dated to 1840, is owned by the Yale University Art Gallery. Few of Vail's works have been published; her style has been described as "idiosyncratic" and her figures "unusually constructed", and she favored a matte finish on her pieces, unlike other painters of her generation.