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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniatures - Theron Beach and Hannah Starr Beach
Object Number
2004-09-6,7
Description
Portrait 1 (L to R): Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of Theron Beach. Sitter is an old, slightly balding white male facing right. Wears black suit with high collar and black cravat. Portrait 2: Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of Hannah Star Beach. Sitter is a young white woman with brown hair curled at temples. Facing forward, wearing an off-the-shoulders black dress with puffy sleeves.
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
1829, 1834
Dimensions
7.5" x 10.5"
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