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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Lucy Sheldon Beach (1788-1889)
Object Number
2004-09-4
Description
Watercolor on ivory, young girl, brown hair pulled up with ringlet curls at sides of temples, green eyes. Black dress with full sleeves. White puffy collar around neck. Coral colored wrap around arms. Framed under glass. Gold frame with brown velvet border
Provenance
Lucy Sheldon Beach attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1801 to 1803.
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
1831
Dimensions
5" x 6"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
