Biography

Found in 18410000Conversation_JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1. He took a miniature of WHS in New York in 1833.

"Thomas Seir Cummings was widely considered the best-trained American miniaturist of his day, and was among the most successful and prolific miniaturists of the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He helped found the National Academy of Design in 1826, and taught miniature painting there for more than thirty years." 

He moved to New York as a child with his family. He was also the treasurer of the National Academy of Design from 1827-1865. WHS commissioned him as brigadier general in 1838.