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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Portrait Miniature - Unidentified Man
Object Number
2016-38-5
Description
Watercolor on ivory portrait miniature of an unidentified man by Anson Dickinson. Bust portrait of a young man wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons, a white vest, and a white stock tie. The man has brown hair and blue eyes. Facing front left against a background of blue, red, green, and brown. Oval portrait with a black and gold eglomise set in a copper oval locket under convex glass, with loop at top.
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
1802-1803
Dimensions
Overall Height 2.375", Width 2"
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
