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JUSTUS DALEE – MINIATURE PORTRAIT GENTLEMAN
Attributed JUSTUS DALEE (1793-1878)
Circa 1835

American Miniature Portrait Attributed to Justus Dalee (active 1826-1847),  A waist-length left-facing profile portrait of a gentleman in black suit housed in a period mahogany veneered frame.

watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper – Good overall condition
Identity of this sitter cannot be confirmed  “Grandfather Wm B. Palmer, Original frame and picture” on frame backboard.

Frame: Ht. 5 7/8″  Wd. 5 1/2″”
Image: Ht. 2-7/8″   Wd. 21/2″

References
American folk portraits and paintings
ABBY ROCKEFELLER GALLERY pgs 77-79

“Side Portrait Painters: Differentiating the Da Lee Family Artists”
published in the July 2011 issue of The Magazine Antiques,

“To Please The Eye: Justus Da Lee and His Family,”
Antiques and Fine Art, Folk Art, vol. 29, no. 4, (Winter 2004/2005)

Biography
Justus Dalee was born October 1, 1793 in Pittstown, Washington County, New York to James Waterman Dalee and his wife. He married Mary Fowler October 13, 1816 at White Creek, Washington County, New York. He was a musician during the Anglo-America war of 1812, but is mostly remembered as an itinerant portrait painter and nearly seventy portraits of children are recorded. He traveled along the east coast primarily in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York State. He died January 5, 1878 in Eden, Wisconsin.
Submitted as a bulletin by: Martha Da Lee Haidek

Inventory: A-M 3643

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