William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769–1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in
Boston
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,
.
Portraits
He oversaw the
Columbian Museum The Columbian Museum (1795–1825) was a museum and performance space in Boston, Massachusetts, established by Daniel Bowen, and continued by William M. S. Doyle. The museum featured artworks, natural history specimens, wax figures, and other curio ...
on
Tremont Street
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in the early 19th century.
As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
* John Adams
* Elijah Bigelow
[Massachusetts Historical Society]
catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
*
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
* Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822
[MFA collections]
Retrieved 2010-09-01
* Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815
* Elijah Corey
* Lydia Gendell Dawes
* Nicolas Michel Faucon
* Samuel Foster
*
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, 1807
* Clarendon Harris
* John Hicks, 1806
* Benjamin Hurd, Jr.
* John Jones, c. 1815
* John May
* James Melledge, 1811
* William Porter
* Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell
*
Caleb Strong
*
James Sullivan
*
Isaiah Thomas, 1805
* Rufus Webb
According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."
[Encyclopedia of American folk art. 2004; p.139).]
Gallery
Image:1808 WmMSDoyle Boston TheDemocrat June1.png, Advertisement for Wm. M.S. Doyle, 1808
Image:Bishop Cheverus byWmMSDoyle.png, Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston
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, 19th century
Image:1810 portrait byWmMSDoyle Smithsonian 1954.6.3 1a.jpg, Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian)
Image:1810 SamuelStockwell byWmMSDoyle MFABoston detail.png, Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Image:1814 CalebStrong MassachusettsManual.png, Portrait of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong, 1814; drawn by Doyle, engraved by I.R. Smith
See also
*
Columbian Museum The Columbian Museum (1795–1825) was a museum and performance space in Boston, Massachusetts, established by Daniel Bowen, and continued by William M. S. Doyle. The museum featured artworks, natural history specimens, wax figures, and other curio ...
, Boston (1795–1825)
References
Further reading
* Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928
Google books* Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47
* C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.
External links
Bostonian Societyowns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
Historic New Englandowns works by Doyle.
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American portrait painters
1769 births
1828 deaths
Artists from Boston
19th century in Boston
Cultural history of Boston
Silhouettists