Biografie von Thomas Augustus CUMMINGS (1823-1859)

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Portrait painter and miniaturist

Exhibited: American Institute (beginning 1842); NAD (1842-58); American Art-Union (beginning in 1845)

Member: ANA, 1853

Comments: A son of Thomas Seir Cummings And Rebecca S. Cummings (see entries), he spent his short career in NYC. His father later wrote of him: Dying young, his works are not numerous, or generally known."

Sources: G&W; Cummings, Historic Annals, 271; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Am. Inst. Cat., 1842; NYCD 1845-48."