Anna Eliza Dunham by William J. Baer, A.N.A., signed, circa 1915.

Anna Dunham (1897-1992) lived in Baltimore.
 
Set in the original gold engine-turned locket frame with cast foliate border, signed lower right, W J. Baer.
 
2 5/8 inches high.
 
William Jacob Baer, A.N.A. (1860-1941), a founding member and second president of the American Society of Miniature Painters, was instrumental in the revival of the art.  Baer, a native of Cincinnati, studied at the Munich Royal Academy, returning to America to work as a portrait and genre painter.  By 1893, he had taken up miniature painting almost exclusively, and with Laura Coombs Hills, Isaac Josephi, and Lucia Fairchild Fuller, among others, founded the American Society of Miniature Painters in 1899.  Baer exhibited at the National Academy of Design, where he was elected Associate in 1913, the Pennsylvania Academy and the Chicago Art Institute.  His portrait of early patron Alfred Corning Clark is in the Clark Institute, Williamstown.  Baer's self-portrait is in the collection of the National Academy of Design.