Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)

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Artist: Rufus Anson / American, active 1851-1867
Date: 1855
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: Plate, approx: 21.3 × 16.8 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Image, sight: 18.3 × 13.2 cm (7 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Open case: 23 × 36.1 × 1.2 cm (9 1/16 × 14 1/4 × 1/2 in.); Case: 23.3 × 17.7 × 2.2 cm (9 3/16 × 7 × 7/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: portrait
Style: 19th century
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession no.: 2019.260

Untitled (Portrait of Masked Person)
Rufus Anson
1858 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009074
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)
Rufus Anson
1855 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009076
Untitled (Portrait of a Boy and Girl)
Rufus Anson
1855 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009091
Untitled (Portrait of a Man)
Rufus Anson
1858 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009113

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.