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1809 Sandwich, New Hampshire - 1856 West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Known for: Portrait, some genre, landscape.
Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston,... Read full biography
Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor (Maine). By 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick,... Read full biography
Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor (Maine). By 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was widely patronized by citizens of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including all of the judges of the New Brunswick Supreme Court. After 1839 he made his home in Boston. He met William Henry... Read full biography
Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor (Maine). By 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was widely patronized by citizens of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including all of the judges of the New Brunswick Supreme Court. After 1839 he made his home in Boston. He met William Henry Harrison in 1840 on a trip to Ohio and painted his most important portrait, "William Henry Harrison". From 1842 to 1844, he visited Europe and returned to Boston building a house in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he died in December of 1856. Source:.... Read full biography
Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor (Maine). By 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was widely patronized by citizens of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including all of the judges of the New Brunswick Supreme Court. After 1839 he made his home in Boston. He met William Henry Harrison in 1840 on a trip to Ohio and painted his most important portrait, "William Henry Harrison". From 1842 to 1844, he visited Europe and returned to Boston building a house in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he died in December of 1856. Source:. Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America". Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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Portrait and landscape painter, Albert Gallatin Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829 and while attending gave art lessons. During the 1830's he painted portrait commissions in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor (Maine). By 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he was widely patronized by citizens of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including all of the judges of the New Brunswick Supreme Court.
After 1839 he made his home in Boston. He met William Henry Harrison in 1840 on a trip to Ohio and painted his most important portrait, "William Henry Harrison". From 1842 to 1844, he visited Europe and returned to Boston building a house in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he died in December of 1856.But wait, there's more...
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