Micah Williams (1782 - 1837)

Allen Daniel, Park Ridge, New Jersey;

Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Peter H. Tillou et al., Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage: Works of Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou, (Storrs, Connecticut: William Benton Museum of Art, 1973,) nos. 33 and 34;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 241-2, fig. 412a-b.

The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 23- June 3, 1973; The New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown New York, July 1- September 5, 1973; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg Virginia, 1974; Monmouth County Historical Association, exhibition on Micah Williams, May 19 - October 9, 2013.

The Warwicks attributed the sitters of these portraits as being the parents of Rebecca Hubbard, whose portrait by Micah Williams is owned by the Monmouth County Historical Association. In all three portraits, the sitters sit in the same grained painted fancy chairs with yellow trim over orange and the same blue-green background color; a trend Williams employed to connote family groupings. Samuel Hubbard (1779-1848) and Margaret Stoutenbergh Hubbard (1794-1874) lived on West Front Street, Red Bank, once part of Middletown. Their portraits are housed in a pair of period gold frames and are both backed with the same newspaper dated June 2, 1823.