Portrait of a Woman Holding a Book

,Micah Williams worked principally as a pastellist in central New Jersey area between 1790 and 1832. Working briefly in New York City from 1829-1833, the majority of Williams' sitters appear to have come from Monmouth County, New Jersey. See Rumford, American Folk Portraits: Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (Boston, 1981), p. 193. See also, Groce and Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America (New Haven, 1957), p. 689.