Collections record Beta

Portrait Miniature - Charles Herman Ruggles (1789-1865)

ca1910-01-8

Full face portrait - male with brown, curly hair, blue eyes, large nose. He is wearing a blue overcoat with high collar, buff waistcoat and white neck band with tie. Frame: gold with staple and loop at top - back oval with wide woven bands of hair, gold cut initials "HR".

SITTER: Herman Ruggles of New York, son of Lazarus Ruggles of New Milford. ARTIST: Born in Milton, a village in the town of Litchfield, Anson Dickinson began advertising himself as a miniature painter in 1802. He traveled to New York in 1804, where he was painted by Edward Greene Malbone, the leading American miniaturist of his day. Dickinson painted over 1,500 miniatures over the course of fifty years, traveling as far as Canada and South Carolina to paint. He kept a studio in New York for a period, and returned frequently to Litchfield where he painted prominent residents and students of the Female Academy and Law School.

• Dickinson, Anson, 1779-1852

1810-1815

3" H x 2 1/4" L

• ivory
• watercolor
• metal