Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Charles William and Mary Deming Perkins
Object Number
1939-03-8
Description
Miniature portrait of boy and girl--boy on left, with arm around girl. Boy wearing taupe dress with white ruffled collar. Girl wearing white ruffled dress. Both have brown hair and brown eyes. Plain red leather album case with two hooks. White silk lining, green velvet binder. Artist's trade card attached to lining.
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
1828
Dimensions
case: 4.75"h x 4.375w
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
