Attributed to ANSON DICKINSON (1779-1852)

A Gentleman wearing black jacket, waistcoat and stock, and white collar, with brown hair; together with a Gentleman in black jacket, waistcoat and stock, and white collar, with blond hair, also attributed to Anson Dickinson

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Attributed to ANSON DICKINSON (1779-1852)
Dickinson, Anson
A Gentleman wearing black jacket, waistcoat and stock, and white collar, with brown hair; together with a Gentleman in black jacket, waistcoat and stock, and white collar, with blond hair, also attributed to Anson Dickinson
watercolor on ivory
2.7/8 x 2.3/8in. each
the first, gilt-metal oval scroll-cut frame, with hair locket in glazed scroll-cut oval on verso, in fitted red leather case with paper inscription outlining a history of ownership in the Miles Standish Family; the second gilt-metal oval frame, with glazed oval on verso (2)

Lot Essay

Born in Milton, Connecticut, Anson Dickinson (1779-1852) began his almost half-century career painting portrait miniatures in 1802 in New Haven. By 1804, Dickinson made New York City the base of his portrait miniature painting, traveling in search of commissions to Canada, Albany, Buffalo, Charleston, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., as well as his home environs of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut. (G and W, p.179)

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