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Gift of The Collins Company, 1966.53.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Samuel Watkinson Collins
Gift of The Collins Company, 1966.53.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Samuel Watkinson Collins

Subject (American, 1802 - 1871)
Datelate 1830s
MediumMiniature; watercolor on ivory in leather-covered wood case
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 9/16 x 2 7/8in. (9.1 x 7.3cm)
Other (height x width x depth of case): 5 1/8 x 4 5/16 x 9/16in. (13.1 x 10.9 x 1.5cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of The Collins Company
DescriptionHalf-length portrait of man with brown hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a black stock or cravat, a white shirt, black waistcoat, and black jacket. The miniature is in a leather-covered wooden case. The silk pad in the case is dark blue and the portrait is framed in yellow silk.
Object number1966.53.1
NotesDate Note: Museum records date this miniature to the late 1830s and the subject's life dates corroborate that. (Ozzone 5/2/2013)
On View
Not on view
Gift of C. Alfred Weatherby, 1929.2.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
James Bidwell Hosmer
1795-1810
Gift of The Collins Company, 1966.53.2  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Unknown
late 1830s
Gift of Charles Coleman Sellers, 1963.65.0  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Waldo & Jewett
about 1815
Gift of Harriet Gilman, 1901.1.1Gift of Harriet Gilman, 1901.1.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Histor…
Unknown
probably 1841
Gift of Elizabeth W. Temple, 2011.63.45  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Collins Skylight Portraits
1847-1851
Gift of Mrs. William H. Bulkeley, 1965.46.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Charles William Eldridge
about 1835
Gift of Mrs. Edgar Burnham, 1959.80.8  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
K.W. Bronson
early 1840s
Purchased from Avis and Rockwell Gardiner, 1956.39.16 © 2015 The Connecticut Historical Society
Samuel Watkinson Collins
after 1834
Gift of Mrs. Dwight Hughes, 1958.35.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Public Domain
Royal Ralph Hinman
1807
Gift of Florence Ogle, 1972.11.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
George Child
probably 1820s
Museum purchase, 1964.45.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Alice Maude Lovett
late 1850s
Bequest of Annie C. Miller, 1943.1.1 © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Henry Lewis Miller
1835-1840