William M. S. Doyle
William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769-1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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:
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According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."[13]
Gallery
- Advertisement for Wm. M.S. Doyle, 1808
- Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston, 19th century
- Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian)
- Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Portrait of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong, 1814; drawn by Doyle, engraved by I.R. Smith
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See also
- Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)
References
- Boston Directory. 1807, 1823
- Boston medical and surgical journal, May 13, 1828
- 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
- Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
- Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
- MFA collections. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- Samuel Foster participated in the Boston Tea Party participant and fought in the American Revolution. cf. Bolton. 1915; p.45
- Smithsonian
- Harvard. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- American Antiquarian Soc. Retrieved 2010-09-01
- 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
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- Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
- Historic New England owns works by Doyle.
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