page_title: Anson Dickinson
section_title: Subjects
hierarchical_section_title: Anson Dickinson / Work / Subjects
caption_attribution_description: Painting, miniature; Paintings
context_page_description: Anson Dickinson was an American painter of miniature portraits who achieved fame during his lifetime, producing a very large number of works,
  but who is now largely forgotten.
context_section_description: Dickinson kept a work book that documents 1,500 subjects that he painted over the fifty years of his career, giving the place and date of each work, and sometimes the price.
  His subjects included both common people, such as his family members and neighbors, and prominent members of society. 
  Some of the latter included Edward Livingston, General Jacob Brown, Washington Irving, General Peter Buell Porter, Sam Houston and Gilbert Stuart.
  In July 1830 Dickinson was commissioned by George Washington Parke Custis to make a copy of Charles Willson Peale's 1772 "Militia Colonel Portrait" of George Washington.
  Dickinson's engraving captured the essence of the original, but was somewhat simplified due to the constraints of the miniature format.
  There was great demand for pictures of Washington, and Custis allowed Dickinson to hire James W. Steel to produce an engraving copied from his miniature. He advertised the reproductions for sale for one dollar each.
caption: Edward Livingston c, 1827
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