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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Anne Buel Webster
Object Number
2002-22-2
Description
Older woman with brown hair and blue eyes, wearing white cap with ruffled edge that is tied in bow under her neck. Wearing black, empire style dress with white scarf tucked around neck. Strand of pearls around neck. Housed in red case with decorative brass lock. Red velvet on inside of case. Miniature under glass with gold 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
1832
Dimensions
3" x 3 1/2" (miniature) 6 1/2" x 3 3/4" (case, opened)
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
