Artist. Portrait painter and copyist. As a young man he was a partner in the retail firm Kimball & Southward, a boot and shoe shop in Salem where, around 1838, he exhibited his first painting in the store window. He studied art in Boston with the portrait painter Joseph Alexander Ames, and accompanied him on a visit to Rome in 1848. He eventually established his own studio on Central Street in Salem, where he produced portraits, miniatures, landscapes, and still-lifes. He was also commissioned to copy portraits of earlier artists to be presented as gifts to various institutions. (Essex Institute, Peabody-Essex Museum)
Artist. Portrait painter and copyist. As a young man he was a partner in the retail firm Kimball & Southward, a boot and shoe shop in Salem where, around 1838, he exhibited his first painting in the store window. He studied art in Boston with the portrait painter Joseph Alexander Ames, and accompanied him on a visit to Rome in 1848. He eventually established his own studio on Central Street in Salem, where he produced portraits, miniatures, landscapes, and still-lifes. He was also commissioned to copy portraits of earlier artists to be presented as gifts to various institutions. (Essex Institute, Peabody-Essex Museum)
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