Micah Williams was a New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 folk art

Folk art

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic....

painter.

He was born in Long Island or New Jersey. From 1829 to 1833 he worked in New York City. He also worked as a portrait artist in and around New Brunswick and Monmouth County, New Jersey. The earliest work attributed to him is from around 1790, and the last work attributed to him was from 1833. In 1806 he married in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1837. Encyclopedia of New Jersey. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004): p. 845.
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