biografia di Jesse ATWOOD (1802-?)

Birth place: New Hampshire

Profession: Itinerant portrait painter

Work: Historical Society of Pennsylvania (portrait of Gen. Zachary Taylor)

Comments: Active as itinerant painter, c.1828-54. Atwood appears to have married in Rhode Island, where his wife Anna and their first child, George, were born, the latter about 1828. The family moved to Pennsylvania, where a daughter, Mary, was born c.1830. During the next decade Atwood is known to have worked at Deerfield (MA) in 1832, at Richmond (VA) in 1841, and at Philadelphia in 1841 and 1843. In 1847 he was at Monterey (Mexico), where he painted a portrait of Gen. Zachary Taylor. En route to Monterey he was in New Orleans and again on his way back when he exhibited the finished portrait there for an entrance fee of 50 cents. On leaving New Orleans he planned to exhibit the painting in St. Louis, MO, Louisville, KY, Cincinnati, OH and Philadelphia. Atwood was again in Philadelphia 1849-54, where his wife owned real property valued at $6,000 in the 1850 Census.

Sources: G&W; 7 Census (1850), Pa., LIII, 315; letter of Mrs. George Spencer Fuller to Frick Art Reference Library, June 25, 1943; Richmond Portraits, cites Richmond Whig, Feb. 15, 1841; Phila. CD 1841, 1843, 1849, 1851-54; Rutledge, PA; Sawitzky, Hist. Soc. of Penna. Cat. A hand-bill advertising J. Atwood, itinerant portrait painter, is reproduced in Somebody's Ancestors," cat. of exhibition at Springfield (Mass.) Museum, Feb-March 1942. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 15."

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