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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Theron Beach (1785-1864)
Object Number
2004-09-5
Description
Watercolor on ivory of older man with salt and pepper colored hair, brown eyes. White shirt with white cravat and black double breasted jacket. Background cream. Miniature oval in shape. Under glass with gold border. Framed in oval gold frame with green velvet border.
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
1829
Dimensions
4 3/4" x 6"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
