From the age of 10, Biffin taught herself to sew, write and paint using her mouth and shoulders so as not to be a burden on her family.
A tribute to the miniaturist Sarah Biffin, who was born into a farming family in Somerset, England in 1784 with phocomelia syndrome – without hands and feet – is the exhibition ‘Without Hands: The Art of Sarah Biffin’ hosted by Philip Mold & Company in London.
From the age of 10, Biffin taught herself to sew, write and paint using her mouth and shoulders so as not to be a burden on her family. She was called “The Miracle Without Limbs” or “The Eighth Miracle” as she ran away from home as a teenager and toured with a circus. Crowds flocked to see her paint watercolors and miniature portraits and left with a sample of her writing on the ticket as a souvenir. She was admired one day by the rich Earl of Morton and took her under his protection. She became famous and was commissioned by the royal family; she signed many of her works “without hands”.
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