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Collection Record Detail

Object Name

Portrait Miniature - A. J. Moore

Object Number

2016-38-9

Description

Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of A. J. Moore, husband of Susan Moore, by Anson Dickinson. Bust portrait of man wearing blue jacket with black vest, white shirt, and a black cravat. The man has brown curly hair with sideburns and blue eyes. Facing front right against a background of white, blue, grey, brown, and red. Square portrait set in red tooled leather album case with gilt border and hook clasps. The inside of the case is lined with white silk and has a green velvet binder around square glass. Unrelated invitation used as filling at rear of miniature.

Provenance

Part of a lot of Dickinson miniatures of the Moore Family purchased from Marika's in Boston in the 1960s. Originally purchased in Troy, NY.

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.