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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - General Morris Woodruff (1777-1840)
Object Number
1978-02-1
Description
Rectangular ivory bust length portrait of Morris Woodruff. He is wearing a black suit with a white shirt. He has brown eyes and grey hair. The background is 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
Febrarury, 1835
Dimensions
3 3/4"H X 2 5/8"W
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