William M. S. Doyle
William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769–1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.
Portraits
He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.[1][2]
As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
- John Adams[3]
- Elijah Bigelow[4]
- Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus[5]
- Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822[6]
- Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815[6]
- Elijah Corey[4]
- Lydia Gendell Dawes[4]
- Nicolas Michel Faucon[4]
- Samuel Foster[7]
- Gottlieb Graupner, 1807[6]
- Clarendon Harris[4]
- John Hicks, 1806[6]
- Benjamin Hurd, Jr.[8]
- John Jones, c. 1815[6]
- John May[4]
- James Melledge, 1811[6]
- William Porter[9]
- Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell[6]
- Caleb Strong[10]
- James Sullivan[11]
- Isaiah Thomas, 1805[12]
- Rufus Webb[4]
According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."[13]
Gallery
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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
- ^ a b c d e f g Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
- ^ Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to William M. S. Doyle.
- 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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