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Micah Williams

Micah Williams (1782 - 1837) was active/lived in New Jersey, New York, New Brunswick.  Micah Williams is known for Naive pastel portrait painting.

Working as a portrait artist principally in New Jersey, Micah Williams created early in his career likenesses of area residents. His birthplace is not confirmed but it is thought he was born about 1782 near Hempstead, New York.

In the spring of 1815, he, a former plater of silver, was released from the Middlesex County jail in Brunswick, New Jersey, having been jailed during that year as an insolvent debtor.  For the next twenty years, he would manage to support himself and family as an itinerant painter of pastel portraits.

The first published reference to him was in the New Brunswick Advertiser in December 1806, when he married Margaret Priestly.  Soon after that he and his brother-in-law, James Applegate Priestly, established a silver plating business, and for a time they had done well.  But import prohibiting federal policy---the Embargo Act of 1807 and the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809, combined with The War of 1812, led to a severe economic depr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3954 characters.]  Artist bio

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