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William A. Watkins
William A. Watkins is a Romanticism painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
William A. Watkins painted portraits on tiny ivory panels in the 1830s, often capturing sitters against plain backgrounds with quiet attention to lace collars and gold watch chains. One of his known works, L. P. Church (1834), shows this restrained, detail-rich style in watercolor on ivory. His small scale suggests he may have worked for clients who wanted portable keepsakes or miniature likenesses for lockets.
Tap L. P. Church to see how a single sheet of ivory could hold a whole face in careful, miniature strokes.
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