Collections record Beta

Portrait Miniature - Seth Preston Beers (1781-1863)

1975-04-4

Rectangular ivory portrait miniature. Bust length portrait of Seth Preston Beers. He has thinning brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a black coat, tie and vest and a white high collared shirt. Pink pastel background. Framed with grey mat.

SITTER: Seth Preston Beers was born in Woodbury, CT and attended the Litchfield Law School in 1803. State Attorney, 1820-25, CT House of Reps, 1820-23, Clerk of House, 1821, Speaker, 1822-23, CT Senate, 1824. m. Belinda Webster in 1807. ARTIST: 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.

• Dickinson, Anson, 1779-1852

1835 or 1837

3" X 2 1/2"

• ivory
• watercolor
• glass