Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Cornelia Bennett Lewis (1831 - )
Object Number
1921-05-3
Description
3/4 length portrait, facing left. Woman with dark brown hair, parted in middle. Has blue eyes, pink complexion. Wearing a dark blue ddress with lace collar and pink and blue silk ribbon tie fastened with a gold pin. A red shawl is caught at the elbows.
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 1/4" x 2 5/8"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
