Pair of oval profile portraits on ivory of William Welch Miller (1797-1827) and his wife Anna Maria Gifford Miller (1796 – 1869), both of New Jersey. Mounted in oval brass frames and in turn mounted into a black wooden frame with brass hanger. Sight – 3" H x 2 1/2" W. Framed – 5 5/8" x 4 5/8" W. Note: William W. Miller was born in German Valley, Morris Co., NJ, in 1797. He graduated from the College of New Jersey at Princeton, in 1814, and worked in the law office of Theodore Frelinghuysen, Esq.. He died in Paris, France, in July, 1826, at the early age of twenty-eight years after suffering a ruptured blood vessel a couple of years earlier. Collection of the Rev. Henry M. Bruen, Jr. Condition: Male portrait in overall very good condition. Female portrait with vertical crack to left side of face.