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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Frederick Augustus Tallmadge (1794-1869)
Object Number
CA1910-01-2
Description
Bust portrait of young man with long, curly black hair, sideburns, and blue eyes. He wears a black coat, high collar, white neck tied with small bow, ruffled shirt. Gold oval frame with glass. Back has small oval area for lock of hair, but there is none. Frederick Augustus Tallmadge (1792-1869) attended Litchfield Law School in 1811. m. Elizabeth Canfield in 1815. Practiced law in NYC. Congressman 1847-49, Sup. of Police 1857-62.
Comment
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.
Category
Date Made
1814
Dimensions
2 5/8"h x 2 1/4"w oval
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
