Isaac Augustus Wetherby (1819-1904) or I.A. Wetherbee was an American painter and photographer. He worked in
Boston
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, and in
Iowa
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. Examples of his work are in the Beverly Historical Society, Massachusetts; Fruitlands Museum; New York Historical Society; and the State Historical Society of Iowa.
State Historical Society of Iowa
Retrieved 2012-01-03
References
Further reading
* Slonneger, Marybeth. Wetherby's Gallery: paintings, daguerreotypes, & ambrotypes of an artist. Iowa City, Iowa: Hand Press, c2006.
*
Wetherby Cottage holds historic charm
" The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), ca.2009
External links
* New York Historical Society
Portrait of Catherine M. Thayer
1845 image by Wetherby.
* State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Isaac A. Wetherby Collection:
Old Capitol, Iowa
ca.1854 image by Wetherby.
American portrait painters
1819 births
1904 deaths
Photographers from Massachusetts
Painters from Iowa
Painters from Massachusetts
19th century in Boston
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
American male painters
19th-century American photographers
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