# Robert Broome

- By: Anson Dickinson (born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852)
- Date: ca. 1810
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 7/8 x 7/8 in. (2.3 x 2.1 cm) oval
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Munroe
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=6803)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/73f482a85ee825014b92708a95ff4dbd.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Robert Broome was the uncle of Robert Munroe, who in turn was the great-uncle of the donor, Helen Munroe. Helen Munroe was at one time the director of publications at the Smithsonian Institution. This miniature was worn as a stickpin by the well-dressed owner. Stickpins were among the flashiest accessories available to a gentleman of this time, and this one, in particular, would have drawn attention because of the unusual close-up profile of the sitter.