Joseph Wood (c. 1778 - June 15, 1830) was an American painter noted mainly for his portraits. Wood was born near

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, and in 1793 apprenticed to a silversmith. In 1801 he became a miniature painter and studied with

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. He then formed a partnership with

John Wesley Jarvis John Wesley Jarvis (1780 or 1781 – January 14, 1839) was an American painter. Biography John Wesley Jarvis (great, great nephew of Methodist leader John Wesley), was born at South Shields, England. His father was an English mariner, who mov ...

, 1802-10, worked in Philadelphia from 1813–1816, then in Washington, D.C., from 1816–1830. In his later years he ran an art school and served as a draftsman for patent applications. He died in Washington, D.C.

References

* ''The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915'', by Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983.
Smithsonian American Art Museum entry
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