Person:William Dunlap (32)

Research Notes

• noted American miniaturist painter
• see William Dunlap, Painter and Critic: Or, The American Vasari

Mrs. Anne (Muirison) Woolsey, painted by William Dunlap. She is his mother-in-law.

Mrs. Ann (Brunton) Merry, painted by William Dunlap

William Dunlap, self painted by William Dunlap.

Mrs. Elizabeth (Woolsey) Dunlap, painted by William Dunlap.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Recorded, in World Book Encyclopedia.

   "The First notable American dramatist was William Dunlap [1766-1839], who was also a manager, painter, and historian of the theater. In his autobiography, published in the "Rise of the Arts of Design" (1, 1969 ed., 267), William Dunlap wrote the following about his early life in New York: "I sought assiduously to gain knowledge, but unfortunately could not be content without exposing my ignorance by writing and publishing... I was likewise drawn into some societies called convivial; and as I had been a member of Buck's lodge in London, so at home I became a Black Friar and a Mason; but happily I was withdrawn from this course by marriage with Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Benjamin Woolsey, deceased, and Anne his second wife, the daughter of Doctor Muirson."
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   [Note: It was probably about the time of his marriage to her daughter that William Dunlap painted this miniature of Anne (Muirson) Woolsey.)]

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Family Recorded, in Dunlap, William. Diary of William Dunlap (1766-1839): the memoirs of a dramatist, theatrical manager, painter, critic, novelist, and historian. (3 Volumes). (New York: New York Historical Society, 1930).