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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Unidentified Man
Object Number
2016-38-7 a,b
Description
Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of an unidentified young man by Anson Dickinson. Bust portrait of a young man wearing a black jacket with a textured white vest and a white stock tie. The man has brown hair and brown eyes. Facing front right against a background of blue and white. Oval portrait with a black and gold eglomise set in a metal oval locket under convex glass, with loop at top. B - Original broken glass with black and gold eglomise.
Provenance
Bought from Willington Antiques, Conn., who bought locally. Given the date and style of the portrait, the piece was likely completed in Conn.
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
c.1803
Dimensions
Overall Height 2", Width 1.25"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
