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This is part 19 of a 21-part post on American Folk Art:
Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855)
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| 1843c Self-Portrait oil on artists board Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, MA |
Joseph Whiting Stock was a painter known for his portraits, miniatures, and
landscape paintings, many of which he did on commission. He was born in 1815 in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
When Stock was eleven
years old, an oxcart fell on him and he was paraplegic for the rest of his
life. After this accident, he began to study painting under Franklin White, a
pupil of the painter Chester Harding on the advice of his physician, and was
commissioned to do a series of anatomical drawings by Dr. James Swan in 1834.
That year, Dr. Swan constructed a wheelchair that enabled Stock to paint large
canvasses and be lifted on trains so as to travel for commissions. For the next
two decades Stock accepted commissions for portraits around New England,
working in Warren and Bristol, Rhode Island, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and
Middletown, Goshen, and Port Jervis, New York. His studios were located in his hometown of
Springfield throughout this time. In 1855, Stock died of tuberculosis in Springfield.
He was forty years old.
He also sold
boxes, clocks, and frames ornamented with shells, and toward the end of his
career he copied daguerreotypes. His journal records that from 1832 to 1846 he
executed over 912 paintings and left an additional 85 to 95 among his
possessions at his death.
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| 1830s Girl with a Doll |
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| late 1830s Portrait of a Man oil on canvas 84.1 x 69.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| late 1830s Portrait of a Woman oil on canvas 83.8 x 69.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1830s Mary Jane Smith |
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| 1840c Portrait of Daniel Plumb Jr. 91.4 x 63.5 cm |
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| 1840 Miss Perkins oil on canvas 73.7 x 61 cm Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL |
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| 1840 Thomas Henry and Wilbur Fisk 116.8 x 91.4 cm Springfield Museums, MA |
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| 1840-45c Full length Portrait of a Young Boy with His Dog ( thought to be Porter Whipple aged 5 ) oil on canvas 119.4 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1840c Baby in a Wicker Basket oil on canvas 77.4 x 66.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1840c Girl with Reticule and Rose oil on canvas 118.6 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1840s ( attributed to ) Girl in a Blue Dress with Her Pet Dog oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm |
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| 1844 Jane Henrietta Russell, Springfield, MA oil on canvas 121.9 x 92.1 cm Shelburne Museum, Vermont |
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| 1845 ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Young Girl oil on canvas 66 x 56.5 cm |
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| 1845 John and Louisa Stock oil on canvas 127.6 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| 1845 Mary and Francis Wilcox oil on canvas 122 x 101.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1845 Portrait of Francis Wilcox oil on canvas mounted on board 63.5 x 51.4 cm |
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| 1845 Portrait of Mary Wilcox oil on canvas mounted on board 63.5 x 51.4 cm |
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| 1847c ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Sea Captain of New Bedford, MA oil on canvas 90.8 x 75.6 cm |
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| 1850 ( attributed to) Mary Caroline and Otis Hubbard Cooley oil on canvas 95.9 x 105.4 cm |
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| 1850c ( attributed to ) Portrait of Two Children oil on canvas 106.7 x 86.4 cm |
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| 1850c ( attributed to ) Young Girl in a White Dress oil on canvas 94.6 x 74.3 cm |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Child in a Green Dress oil on canvas |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Small Child |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Portrait of Amy Philpot in a Blue Dress with Doll and Goldfish oil on canvas 109.8 x 84.4 cm |
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| n.d. Boy with a Dog |
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| n.d. Double Portrait of a Young Boy with a Whip and His Sister with a Bouquet of Flowers 121.9 x 92.1 cm |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Child oil on canvas 67.3 x 54.6 |
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| n.d. Portrait of a Girl |
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| n.d. Portrait of Elijah Wales at age 6 |
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| n.d. Portrait of William James Coffin in a Blue Dress with a Small White Dog oil on canvas 78.7 x 91.4 cm |
Oliver Tarbell Eddy (1799 – 1868)
Oliver Tarbell Eddy was born in Greenbush,
Vermont, the eldest son of inventor, printer and engraver Isaac Eddy. Although
his father taught him how to engrave on copper he seems to have been primarily
self-taught. By 1826 Eddy was in New York City working as a portrait and
miniature painter. The following year he exhibited a portrait at the National
Academy of Design.
He moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1831 until 1835, when he settled in Newark.
Eddy was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church there. He was extremely
successful in Newark and painted at least thirteen portraits of members of the
family of William Rankin, a hat manufacturer.
Eddy lived in Baltimore between 1842 and
1850, painting portraits and inventing a precursor of the typewriter. He lived
in Philadelphia from 1850 until his death in 1868.
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| 1838 Portrait of the Four Youngest Children of William Rankin oil on canvas Newark Museum, NJ |
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| 1838c Portrait of a Young Girl oil on panel 102.9 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1839c The Alling Children oil on canvas 119.7 x 159.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
William Thompson Bartoll (1817 – 1859)
William Thompson Bartoll was the son of John and Rebecca Bartoll and was
baptised in Marblehead, Massachusetts on June 22, 1817. He married Sally L.
Selman in April of 1835. Bartoll, like his father, uncle and brother, was a
house painter, as well as a portraitist and mural painter. He is known to have
exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum between 1841 and 1855 and he died in 1859 in
Marblehead.
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| 1838 inscribed "Mary Farra, age 19 months, 1838" oil on panel 50.8 x 44.5 cm |
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| 1840c ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Child Wearing a Blue Dress, Holding a Tinware Toy Pump (Elizabeth Snow of Marblehead, MA) oil on canvas 113.7 x 95.9 cm |
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| 1841-42c Harriette Briggs Stoddard ( Mrs. David Tappan Stoddard ) ( 1821-1848 ) oil on canvas 68.3 x 55.9 cm Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1845c Boy with Toy Drum oil on canvas New York Historical Society |
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| Girl in Orange Dress with Cat |
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| Girl with a Cat |
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| n.d. Portrait of Treat Paine Jr oil on canvas 58.4 x 50.8 cm |
George G. Hartwell (1815 – 1901)
George G. Hartwell was associated with the
Prior-Hamblin group of painters. He was related to William Matthew Prior by
marriage, and he painted signs and portraits in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and
Auburn, Maine. His flat style of painting is very close to that Prior (see part
14) and Sturtevant Hamblin (see part 17). The majority of these works are credited to him by
attribution because he didn’t sign his works.
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| 1830-40c ( attributed to ) Portrait of a Young Lady oil on canvas 80.3 x 67.6 cm |
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| 1840c Anna M. Wilcox oil on academy board 36.2 x 26.1 cm |
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| 1840c ( attributed to ) Little Girl in Pink with Book and Rose oil on canvas 66 x 53.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1840c ( attributed to ) Portrait of an Unknown Man oil on canvas 69.8 x 54.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1840c ( attributed to ) Portrait of an Unknown Woman oil on canvas 68.6 x 54 cm Private Collection |
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| 1840c Portrait of a Gentleman Holding a Book oil on canvas 87.6 x 74.3 cm |
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| 1845c ( attributed to ) Child Holding a Doll and a Shoe oil on canvas 67.9 x 55.2 cm Folk Art Museum, New York City |
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| 1850 Triple Portrait oil on canvas 76.8 x 76.2 cm |
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| n.d ( attributed to ) Boy in BLue with Recorder oil on paper |
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| n.d. ( attributed to ) Girl with a Rose |
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| n.d. Pair of Portraits of a Gentleman and Lady oil on canvas and oil on cardboard respectively 35.6 x 25.7 cm |
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