William M. S. Doyle

William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769-1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.

Self Portrait of the Artist (1801)

Portraits

He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.[1][2]

As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:

John Adams[3] Elijah Bigelow[4] Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus[5] Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822[6] Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815[6] Elijah Corey[4] Lydia Gendell Dawes[4]

Nicolas Michel Faucon[4] Samuel Foster[7] Gottlieb Graupner, 1807[6] Clarendon Harris[4] John Hicks, 1806[6] Benjamin Hurd, Jr.[8] John Jones, c. 1815[6] John May[4]

James Melledge, 1811[6] William Porter[9] Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell[6] Caleb Strong[10] James Sullivan[11] Isaiah Thomas, 1805[12] Rufus Webb[4]

According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."[13]

Gallery

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  Advertisement for Wm. M.S. Doyle, 1808
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  Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston, 19th century
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  Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian)
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  Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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  Portrait of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong, 1814; drawn by Doyle, engraved by I.R. Smith

See also

• Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)

References

1. Boston Directory. 1807, 1823
2. Boston medical and surgical journal, May 13, 1828
3. William Dunlap. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, Volume 3. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918. Google books
4. Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
5. Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
6. MFA collections. Retrieved 2010-09-01
7. Samuel Foster participated in the Boston Tea Party participant and fought in the American Revolution. cf. Bolton. 1915; p.45
8. Smithsonian
9. Harvard. Retrieved 2010-09-01
10. NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
11. NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
12. American Antiquarian Soc. Retrieved 2010-09-01
13. Encyclopedia of American folk art. 2004; p.139).

Further reading

• Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
• Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47
• C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.

External links

• Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
• Historic New England owns works by Doyle.