Micah Williams Portrait Artist - Icompendium

cAtAlogue no. 41
Rebecca Hubbard
(1819-1888)
Pastel on paper
Tinton Falls area, Monmouth County,
New Jersey, circa 1822-1823
29 ³⁄4 x 25 5 ⁄8 inches
Monmouth County Historical Association:
Gift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, 1938
1145 [38]
Artist Micah Williams captured the likeness of cheerful Rebecca
Hubbard sometime in 1822, just shy of her third birthday. Rebecca was
the first of six children born to Samuel Hubbard (Catalogue No. 39) and
Margaret Stoutenborough Hubbard (Catalogue No. 40). Rebecca’s portrait
retains its original newspaper lining, a sheet of The True American dated
28 August 1820.
Rebecca’s pale skin and white dress, edged with finely embroidered ribbon
along the hem, glowed against the brilliant blue-green background.
Rebecca posed within a clearly defined interior space, complete with boldly
patterned and colored carpeting and a simple baseboard molding strip.
The soft tones of the peach she held in her hands echoed the double strand
of tiny coral beads around her neck and her coral pink shoes. Rebecca’s
chair, with its distinctive bright yellow painted trim, closely resembled the
chairs in the portraits of her parents, Samuel and Margaret Hubbard.
cAtAlogue no. 42
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Anna Jocelin
Pastel on paper
New Jersey or New York,
circa 1824
28 1 ⁄2 x 24 1 ⁄2 inches
Collection of Vera and Pepi Jelinek
The lovely young woman in this portrait was identified as Anna
Jocelin, wife of William Henry Jocelin. A small paper label on the back of the
portrait noted that the image was completed in 1823. Little is known about
Anna. Her husband, William Jocelin, was a shipmaster during the 1830s
in New York. (1) Anna’s bright blue belt, possibly of silk, contrasted vividly
against her fashionable black dress.
1. William Jocelin appeared in an 1820 New York City-area directory, listed as “shipmaster,” and almost
a decade later in another directory, also as “shipmaster.” William Mercein, Mercein’s Directory, New-York
Register, and Almanac (New York, NY: William A. Mercein, 1920) 263. Longworth’s American Almanac,
New-York Register and City Directory for 1829 (New York, NY: Thomas Longworth, 1829).