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1785 Westminster, Massachusetts - 1877 Westminster, Massachusetts. Known for: Naive portrait and ornamental painting.
A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage. By 1821, he was settled in... Read full biography
A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage. By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art historian as... Read full biography
A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage. By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art historian as "flat, hard and stiff." (Opitz) Among his subjects was John Greenleaf Whittier. Robert Peckham was also a Congregational Church activist, especially in the temperance and abolitionist movements. Sources... Read full biography
A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage. By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art historian as "flat, hard and stiff." (Opitz) Among his subjects was John Greenleaf Whittier. Robert Peckham was also a Congregational Church activist, especially in the temperance and abolitionist movements. Sources include:. George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p. 496. Glenn B. Opitz, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, p. 710... Read full biography
A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage. By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art historian as "flat, hard and stiff." (Opitz) Among his subjects was John Greenleaf Whittier. Robert Peckham was also a Congregational Church activist, especially in the temperance and abolitionist movements. Sources include:. George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p. 496. Glenn B. Opitz, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, p. 710... Read full biography
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A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and Northampton after his marriage.
By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art historian as "flat, hard and stiff." (Opitz) Among his subjects was John Greenleaf Whittier.
Robert Peckham was also a Congregational Church activist, especially in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
Sources include:
George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p. 496
Glenn B. Opitz, Editor, Mantle Fi...But wait, there's more...
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