Sarah Dodge Age 74 by Justus Dalee. Later gilt metal frame. Very rare Dalee profile with sitter ID lettered by the artist as he occasionally did along the top of the portrait. Classic traits of Justus work exhibiting subtle blue bleed along edges as well as the thin black painted spandrel. Many thanks to Elle Shushan for her excellent article Side Portrait Painters The Magazine Antiques, July 2011. Born in Pittstown, New York, he married Mary Fowler of Cambridge, New York in 1816. The DaLee family lived in Cambridge until at least 1835. Six family records drawn by DaLee during that period for patrons from Albany, West Troy and Cambridge have survived. DaLee advertised in Rochester in 1841 as a Side Portrait Painter, but at the same time, worked as an itinerant, all the way to Massachusetts. By 1847, DaLee was in Buffalo. He was listed in 1847, the last year of any of his known works, as an artist. Justis was joined in his profession by his younger brother, Richard R. It is probable that a good number of the portraits are collaborations of two or more members of the family. The DaLees distinctive profile portraits are honest chronicles of the working people of western New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, often displaying their finest lace and fancy chairs. The DaLee family is represented in the collections of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg and the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, New York. The item “American Folk Portrait Miniature by Justus Dalee c1845″ is in sale since Friday, January 11, 2019. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “bradgtr6r08″ and is located in Brentwood, Tennessee. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Date of Creation: 1800-1899
• Originality: Original