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Walter M. Brackett (June 14, 1823 – March 4, 1919), was an American painter and the younger brother of sculptor Edward A. Brackett. Brackett was born in Unity, Maine. He spent most of his professional career in Boston, Massachusetts, exhibiting his work at the Boston Athenaeum, the Apollo Association, and the National Academy of Design. He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War
Artwork by Walter M. Brackett
1823 births 1919 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters People from Unity, Maine Painters from Boston 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1820s-stub
Walter M. Brackett (June 14, 1823 – March 4, 1919), was an American painter and the younger brother of sculptor Edward A. Brackett. Brackett was born in Unity, Maine. He spent most of his professional career in Boston, Massachusetts, exhibiting his work at the Boston Athenaeum, the Apollo Association, and the National Academy of Design. He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap
William Worth Belknap (September 22, 1829 – October 12, 1890) was a lawyer, soldier in the Union Army, government administrator in Iowa, and the 30th United States Secretary of War, serving under President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap was impeach ...
in the early 1870s to execute portraits of the line of succession of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter
Samuel Dexter (May 14, 1761May 4, 1816) was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Dexter was an 1881 graduate of Harvard ...
, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state. He was also a noted painter of fish, and was tasked with repainting the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts
The Sacred Cod is a carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, "painted to the life", hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of thi ...
in 1898.
Brackett died in Boston on March 4, 1919.
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1823 births 1919 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters People from Unity, Maine Painters from Boston 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1820s-stub