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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Elizabeth Canfield Tallmadge (1792-1878)
Object Number
CA1910-01-1
Description
Bust portrait of young woman wearing white low-cut empire dress. Brown hair, brown eyes. Grey-blue background. Gold frame with tiny beading inside lining. Finial top, strap loop at top. Back plain with glass convex oval cover for brown lock of hair on woven background. Tiny beading around glass.
Provenance
Elizabeth attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1809 and 1814, and married Litchfield Law School student Frederick Augustus Tallmadge in 1815.
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
1814
Dimensions
3"h x 2.5"w framed
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
