HENRY WILLIAMS (1787-1830)

A Gentleman wearing black jacket, cream waistcoat, stock and collar, with blond hair swept forward; together with a young Gentleman wearing black jacket and cream stock and collar, with brown hair swept forward, attributed to Anson Dickinson (1779-1852)

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HENRY WILLIAMS (1787-1830)
Williams, Henry
Dickinson, Anson
A Gentleman wearing black jacket, cream waistcoat, stock and collar, with blond hair swept forward; together with a young Gentleman wearing black jacket and cream stock and collar, with brown hair swept forward, attributed to Anson Dickinson (1779-1852)
signed l.r., H. Williams
watercolor on ivory
3 x 2in. each
the first rose-gold oval beaded frame, with similar aperture on verso; the second rose-gold beaded frame with hair locket in glazed oval on verso (2)

Lot Essay

Like his friend, fellow miniaturist and sometime business partner, William M.S. Doyle, Henry Williams (1787-1830) excelled in a variety of artistic endeavours and spent his entire career in Boston. Williams worked with Doyle between 1807 and 1815. He exhibited his works at the Boston Athenaeum between 1828 and 1831. (Johnson, p.232.)

See note to lot 143.

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