Artist
Thomas Seir Cummings
born Bath, England 1804-died Hackensack, NJ 1894
- Also known as
- T. S. Cummings
- Thomas S. Cummings
- Born
- Bath, England
- Died
- Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
Thomas Seir Cummings was widely considered the best-trained American miniaturist of his day, and was among the most successful and prolific miniaturists of the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He helped found the National Academy of Design in 1826, and taught miniature painting there for more than thirty years.