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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Charles Perkins (1792-1856)
Object Number
1939-03-1
Description
Ivory miniature bust portrait of man with dark jacket, white stock, facing forward. Brown eyes, curly brown hair, vague blue background. Green velvet binder. Plain red leather album case, engraved trade card attached to silk lining. Two locks of hair also attached, with thread. Charles Perkins (1792-1856) attended the Litchfield Law School in 1813 and married Clarissa Deming of Litchfield in 1817.
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
October 1, 1831
Dimensions
case: 3 5/8"h x 3"w
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
