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1770 Freetown, Massachusetts - 1822 Duxbury, Massachusetts. Known for: Miniature portrait and landscape painting.
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith Winsor, whose father dissuaded Hathaway from being an artist. Some time later, he became Duxbury's resident doctor, a profession with more predictable income. In 1822, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. That same year... Read full biography
Born in Freetown, Massachusetts to a large Quaker family, Rufus Hathaway trained in the family business of carpentry and ship building. By the early 1790s, he was working as an itinerant artist in the nearby Taunton area. By 1792, he made Duxbury, Massachusetts his permanent home, and he painted portraits of both family members and prominent community people. He painted miniatures, and only four have been located, and only three landscape paintings are attributed to him. He married Judith Winsor, whose father dissuaded Hathaway from being an artist. Some time later, he became Duxbury's resident doctor, a profession with more predictable income. In 1822, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. That same year he died, and is buried in the Mayflower Cemetery of Duxbury. Source:. Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Itinerant Artist
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ivory
- •Oil Paint
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
- •Colonial America
Chronology
- •18th Century
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Added Description
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Portrait Miniatures
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art