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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Charles Deming (1789-1852)
Object Number
1939-03-3
Description
Bust portrait of young man wearing black coat, white collar and stock. Brown eyes, curly black hair. Facing front right. Vague landscape background. Plain red leather album case with two hooks. White silk lining, white velvet binder.
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
May 18, 1826
Dimensions
case: 3.5"h x 3.25"w
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
