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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Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
Meet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Larkin, Jack (others)
143 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Pictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949
Ford, Alice
172 pages (color)
Some American Primitives of New England Faces and Folk Portraits
1941
Sears, Clara Endicott
291 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)