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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.
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As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."
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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
See also
References
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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.
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Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
^ Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
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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
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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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