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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Belinda Webster Beers (1787-1868)
Object Number
1975-04-3
Description
Rectangular watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of Belinda Webster Beers. She is facing front but body is slightly turned to the right. She has brown hair and blue yes. She is wearing a black dress with large puff sleeves, tucked bodice and white net collar over her neck and shoulders. She has a white lace veil in her hair. Wooden frame with gilt paint and beaded inside edge. Grey mat board.
Provenance
See 1975-04-4 for companion miniature of Seth Preston Beers.
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
1835 or 1837
Dimensions
3" X 2 1/2"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
