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Limning, wrote Nicholas Hilliard (c. 15471619) about 1600, "is sweet and cleanly to usse and it is a thing apart from all other Painting or drawing and tendeth not to common mens use. (1) John Wood Dodge, an uncommon man, used limning well, and the portrait miniatures he painted were indeed sweet in nature and clean in style and execution.
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Dodge was born into a middle-class family in New York City on November 4, 1807. (2) At about the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a sign painter in whose shop his work included painting tinned cans. Dodge, his fellow workers, and his family quickly recognized that he had considerable artistic ...
Source: HighBeam Research, John Wood Dodge: and the portrait miniature.