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1782 near Hempstead, New York - 1837 New Brunswick, New Jersey. Known for: Naive pastel portrait painting.
Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about... Read full biography
Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about 1782 near Hempstead, New York. In the spring of 1815, he, a former plater of silver, was released from... Read full biography
Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about 1782 near Hempstead, New York. In the spring of 1815, he, a former plater of silver, was released from the Middlesex County jail in Brunswick, New Jersey, having been jailed during that year as an insolvent debtor. For the next twenty years, he would manage to support himself and family as an... Read full biography
Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about 1782 near Hempstead, New York. In the spring of 1815, he, a former plater of silver, was released from the Middlesex County jail in Brunswick, New Jersey, having been jailed during that year as an insolvent debtor. For the next twenty years, he would manage to support himself and family as an itinerant painter of pastel portraits. The first published reference to him was in the New Brunswick Advertiser in December 1806, when he married Margaret Priestly. Soon after that he and his brother-in-law, James Applegate Priestly, established a silver... Read full biography
Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about 1782 near Hempstead, New York. In the spring of 1815, he, a former plater of silver, was released from the Middlesex County jail in Brunswick, New Jersey, having been jailed during that year as an insolvent debtor. For the next twenty years, he would manage to support himself and family as an itinerant painter of pastel portraits. The first published reference to him was in the New Brunswick Advertiser in December 1806, when he married Margaret Priestly. Soon after that he and his brother-in-law, James Applegate Priestly, established a silver plating business, and for a time they had done well. But import prohibiting federal policy---the Embargo Act of 18... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Adams, Henry (others)495 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981Newark Museum431 pages (color)The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981Rumford, Beatrix295 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesArts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesKaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1978
(Exhibition catalog)William Rockhill Nelson G of A72 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
1972Tomko, George237 pages (color)American Folk Painting
1966Black, Mary/Jean Lipman244 pages (color)101 American Primitive Watercolor And Pastels
1966
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art141 pages (color)Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey
1964Gerdts, William H276 pages