Collections record Beta
Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Unidentified Man
Object Number
1973-02-9
Description
Middle-aged man, full face, with brown eyes, brown hair and sideburns. He wears conventional black suit, black tie band.
Provenance
Came in envelop with three other miniatures marked "Anson Dickinson." Belonged to William E. Dickinson. Purchased from Mrs. Reeves Hart. Sitter may have been a member of the Welch or Dickinson families of Milton, CT
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
1846
Dimensions
3 1/8" x 2 9/16"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
