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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Dorothy Deming
Object Number
1939-03-4
Description
Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature. Square shape. Depicts young girl with long brown hair, brown eyes. Her head is turned slightly to the right and she is wearing a white scoop neck dress with ruffle and blue shawl. Simple landscape in background. Portrait miniature mounted in a plain red leather album case with two brass hinges. White silk lining on inside of cover.
Provenance
This miniature is a copy of Richard Jennys's 1796 oil portrait of Dorothy Deming. Dickinson added the blue shawl. See Frederick F. Sherman's "Richard Jennys: New England Portrait Painter," p.50.
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
Dec. 22, 1836
Dimensions
3 5/8"H X 2 1/2"W
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