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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Emily Sholten Webster (1790-1861)
Object Number
1963-02-7
Description
Oval ivory miniature. Bust portrait of a young woman facing left. Brown hair with curls framing her face. She wears a white mull empire style dress and shawl. Pale complexion. The background has a simple landscape. Incased in an oval gold frame with a beaded inner edge. On the back side of the frame is a double row of scalloped lines and a beaded edge.
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
1812
Dimensions
2 7/8" length x 2 3/8" width
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
