[3] In 1820, she went to live with her sister Eliza in Boston[5][6] and began receiving lessons and painting miniature portraits.

She eventually specialized in miniatures painted on ivory,[4] getting lessons from a Hartford miniaturist, almost certainly Elkanah Tisdale.

[8] Among Goodridge's works is a miniature portrait of her own bared breasts, titled Beauty Revealed, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The work was included in the retrospective "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions.

"[10] It was the inspiration for a miniature painted by the fictional heroine of Blindspot: A Novel (New York, 2008), by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore.