Anson Dickinson was a prolific artist, painting more than fifteen hundred documented miniatures during his forty-eight-year career. He followed a well-established pattern of travel between South Carolina and Canada, painting prominent sitters in cities along the way.

Little is known about sculptor Berthold Nebel, who won the Prix de Rome, an award given by the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Nebel sculpted a figure of General Joseph Wheeler for the United States House of Representatives and also created a statue of Alexander Brown, the founder of a powerful Wa