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Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Mrs. Susan Moore
Object Number
2016-38-2
Description
Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of Mrs. Susan Moore, the wife of A. J. Moore, by Anson Dickinson. Bust portrait of a young woman wearing a black dress with a red shawl. Woman has curled brown hair with rosy cheeks and brown eyes. Facing front right against a background of white, grey, blue, and brown. Square portrait set in red tooled leather album case with gilt border and hook clasps. Inside of case lined with silk, with green velvet binder around square glass.
Provenance
Part of a lot of Dickinson miniatures of the Moore Family purchased from Marika's in Boston in the 1960s. Originally purchased in Troy, NY.
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
c.1833
Dimensions
Overall Height 5.25", Width 3.75", Depth 0.5"
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