William M. S. Doyle
William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769-1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts. He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.[1][2]
As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
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According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."[13]
Image gallery
Advertisement for Wm. M.S. Doyle, 1808
Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston, 19th century
Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian)
Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Portrait of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong, 1814; drawn by Doyle, engraved by I.R. Smith
See also
- Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)
References
- ↑ Boston Directory. 1807, 1823
- ↑ Boston medical and surgical journal, May 13, 1828
- ↑ William Dunlap. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, Volume 3. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918. Google books
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
- ↑ Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MFA collections. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- ↑ Samuel Foster participated in the Boston Tea Party participant and fought in the American Revolution. cf. Bolton. 1915; p.45
- ↑ Smithsonian
- ↑ Harvard. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- ↑ NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- ↑ NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- ↑ American Antiquarian Soc. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- ↑ Encyclopedia of American folk art. 2004; p.139).
Further reading
- Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
- Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47
- C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.
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- Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
- Historic New England owns works by Doyle.
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