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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Hamilton White
Object Number
2016-38-10
Description
Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of Hamilton White by Anson Dickinson. Bust portrait of a young man wearing a black jacket with black vest, white shirt with pin or watch fob, and black cravat tied in a bow. Man has brown hair and blue eyes. Facing front right against a background of white, red, and blue. Square portrait set in a tooled leather album case with a single hook clasp. Inside of case is lined with embossed velvet. Velvet binder with gilt preserver and gilt oval mat. Paper backing marked in pencil, "Hamilton White/Aged 30."
Provenance
Bought by donor at Vermont show. Recorded in Dickinson account book at Syracuse, NY, December 1840.
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
1840
Dimensions
Overall Height 3.75", Width 3.25", Depth 0.5"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
