biografia di William Pierce STUBBS (1842-1909)

Birth place: Orrington, ME

Death place: Medfield, MA

Addresses: North Bucksport, ME; Boston, MA; Charlestown, MA

Profession: Marine painter

Exhibited: Int. Marine Exh., Boston, 1889

Work: Mariner's Mus.; Mystic Seaport Mus.; Peabody Mus.; Beverly Hist. Soc.; Phila. Marine Mus.; Smithsonian.

Comments: Son of a shipmaster, he was likely master of his father"s ship from 1863-73. By 1871 he painted what is likely his first ship portrait, and by 1876 he was listed as a marine painter in the Boston city directory, sharing a studio with Wesley Webber. Later, he had a studios in East Boston, and Charleston where it is likely that Badger was his student. After the death of his wife and daughter, he sank into manic depression, spoke of "spirit magnetism," and was committed in 1894 to Worcester State Hospital, and then to the Medfield State Hospital in 1899 where he died.

Sources: G&W; Old-Time New England (Jan.-Mar. 1952), 68; Art in America (Feb. 1951), 16; A.J. Peluso, article, Maine Antique Digest (July, 1981, p.16-B); Lisa Halttunen, article, The Log (Mystic Seaport Mus., Fall 1981, p.95)