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Article: Portrait miniatures in the New republic.(How. America found its face)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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The stunning events of July 1804 were almost unfathomable for the citizens of the new American republic. One Founding Father had fatally wounded another. Alexander Hamilton was dead and Aaron Burr would be indicted for murder. The duel and its aftermath marked a turning point in American culture.
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Five days before the Burr-Hamilton duel, Edward Greene Malbone arrived for a weeks stay in New York. Considered the finest miniaturist in the United States, Malbone was attractive, popular, already exceedingly successful, and only twenty-six years old. As Hamilton's massive funeral snaked up Broadway on July 14, he was meeting twenty-five ...