Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Cornelia M. (Bennett) Lewis (1809-1890)
Object Number
1921-05-1
Description
Bust portrait of woman with brown hair in a bun, blue eyes, pale complexion. Wears a black dress with a lace collar and a blue and pink candy-striped ribbon with a cameo. Blue shawl caught under her arms. Background is light pick to blue.
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
1851
Dimensions
3 1/8" x 2 1/2"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
