Elias V. Coe is known for fewer than a dozen portraits of residents of Warwick, New York, in Orange County. Based upon the identified sitters, most seem to have been friends and relatives in this small community. Daniel Coe Dusinberre (1773–1857), who is portrayed with his wife, Eleanor (1777–1835), or Nellie, was for many years a hatmaker in Warwick. The portrait is unusual for its large size, double subject, and interior view featuring a massive stone hearth with a blazing fire. An apple that seems to float before the fireplace is sitting on a barely visible table. The two stenciled chairs depicted have survived with the portrait.

Little is known of the artist. He may be Elias Van Arsdale Coe, a physician who was born in Springfield, New Jersey. In 1821 Coe was practicing medicine in Warwick, where he married his cousin Phebe Burt, whose sister Mary he portrayed in 1829. This portrait was painted the year of Nellie’s death, suggesting that it is perhaps a posthumous representation; Coe is known to have painted at least one such portrait, in 1831.

Stacy C. Hollander, "Portrait of Daniel Coe Dusinberre and Eleanor Vandervoort Dusinberre," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.