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Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom AUCTION RECORDS
1772 Leicester, Massachusetts - 1848 Ashby, Massachusetts. Known for: Naive mixed-media profile portrait, stitchery, pastel portrait painting.
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the Bascoms moved to Ashby, Massachusetts, and by 1828 Ruth was producing about forty portraits a year, working in Ashby, Cambridge Port, Boston, and Athol, Massachusetts. After Reverend Bascom's failing health forced him to spend winters in Savannah,... Read full biography
Ruth Henshaw Bascom was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. Her life and career as a portraitist are exceptionally well documented, owing to the existence of the journal she kept from 1789 through 1846, in which she recorded more than one-thousand likenesses. After the death of her first husband in 1805, the artist married the Reverend Ezekiel Bascom and settled in Gerry (now Phillipston), Massachusetts, where she was a teacher, church record keeper, librarian, hat maker, and artist. In 1821 the Bascoms moved to Ashby, Massachusetts, and by 1828 Ruth was producing about forty portraits a year, working in Ashby, Cambridge Port, Boston, and Athol, Massachusetts. After Reverend Bascom's failing health forced him to spend winters in Savannah, Georgia, Ruth stayed behind and traveled in central Massachusetts and parts of Maine painting portraits.... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeProfile bust portrait of a rosy-cheeked young boy
Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom Auction: 01/19/2007 - 1/21/2007Lot: 331Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Lydia Luana Thompson of Phillipston, Mass
Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom Auction: 05/19/2005Lot: 160Subscribe or get free alerts
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