William M. S. Doyle

Self Portrait of the Artist (1801)

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

Portraits

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

As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:

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

See also

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
  5. ↑ Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
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