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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804)
Object Number
1969-03-1
Description
Portrait of man in middle years with receding brown hair with widow's peak, dark gray eyes, and very dark brows only slightly arched. Long nose and oval face with rather weak chin. Facing slightly right with white stock and high collared black coat. Background is shaded from brown to ivory from shoulders.
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
1802-1803
Dimensions
2 1/2" H x 2" W
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
