Born either in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, Moses Russell was known for his miniature portraits and figure painting. From 1834 to 1853, he lived in Boston and later lived in New York and... Read full biography
Born either in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, Moses Russell was known for his miniature portraits and figure painting. From 1834 to 1853, he lived in Boston and later lived in New York and Philadelphia. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. In 1852, he traveled to Italy. He was married to Clarissa... Read full biography
Born either in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, Moses Russell was known for his miniature portraits and figure painting. From 1834 to 1853, he lived in Boston and later lived in New York and Philadelphia. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. In 1852, he traveled to Italy. He was married to Clarissa Russell, also a miniaturist, and the son, Albert Cuyp Russell, became an engraver and illustrator. Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art.... Read full biography
Born either in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, Moses Russell was known for his miniature portraits and figure painting. From 1834 to 1853, he lived in Boston and later lived in New York and Philadelphia. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. In 1852, he traveled to Italy. He was married to Clarissa Russell, also a miniaturist, and the son, Albert Cuyp Russell, became an engraver and illustrator. Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Moses B. Russell was a native of North Woodstock in the wilds of New Hampshire's White Mountains, he went on to become one of Boston's leading miniaturists in the 1830s and 1840s. His small watercolor likenesses on ivory, though... Read full biography
Born either in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, Moses Russell was known for his miniature portraits and figure painting. From 1834 to 1853, he lived in Boston and later lived in New York and Philadelphia. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. In 1852, he traveled to Italy. He was married to Clarissa Russell, also a miniaturist, and the son, Albert Cuyp Russell, became an engraver and illustrator. Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art. ----------------------------------------------------------------------. Moses B. Russell was a native of North Woodstock in the wilds of New Hampshire's White Mountains, he went on to become one of Boston's leading miniaturists in the 1830s and 1840s. His small watercolor likenesses on ivory, though usually signed, are sometimes confused with those of his wife, Clarissa Peters Russell, who painted ethe... Read full biography
Moses Russell - Artist Info
About Moses Russell: Books
Books & Publications (9)
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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
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)