This miniature by Connecticut painter Anson Dickinson represents the third generation of one family, depicting Epaphroditus Champion Bacon, the son of the Honorable Asa Bacon and grandson of General Epaphroditus Champion, both of whom were painted by Dickinson in earlier miniatures. Named after his grandfather, Epaphroditus Champion Bacon studied at Yale Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1835, around the time he sat for Dickinson. After serving in the state House of Representatives in the early 1840s, he died suddenly on a trip to Spain, one of three sons that the Bacons lost in early adulthood. Dickinson’s rectangular-format portraits set into leather cases still display a delicacy associated with Edward Malbone’s style, contrasting with the bolder color contrasts adopted by Charles Fraser and other contemporaries.