Joseph Oriel Eaton

Joseph Oriel Eaton, an American painter of portraits and figure subjects, both in oil and in water-colours, was born in 1829. He died at Yonkers on the Hudson in 1875.

Mother and Children in an Interior

For his son who created Eaton Corporation, see Joseph Oriel Eaton II.

Joseph Oriel Eaton
Portrait of Herman Melville, 1870

Among his exhibited works were:

• Landscape: View on the Hudson. 1868.
• Greek Water-Carrier. 1872.
• Lady Godiva. 1874.
• Looking through the Kaleidoscope. 1875.
• His own Portrait. 1875. (National Academy of Design).

He was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1866.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eaton, Joseph O.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.