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William Verstille ( 1757 – 1803) was an American artist who worked in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, Philadelphia and New York. He specialized in
portraits
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...
. Examples of his artwork reside in the collections of the Harvard Art Museum, Massachusetts Historical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, New York Historical Society, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian,
Smithsonian
/ref> and Yale University.
References
Further reading
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* Accounts of William Verstille. Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 25, Jan. 1960
Images
Image:George Henry Remsen.jpg, G.H. Remsen by Verstille (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Image:Man by William Verstille.png, Unidentified man by Verstille
Image:SusannaHolyokeWard byWilliamVerstille.png, S.H. Ward by Verstille
Image:Man ca1780s by William Verstille.png, Unidentified man by Verstille
Image:Mrs Moses B Russell byWilliamVerstille.png, Mrs. Moses B. Russell by Verstille
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1750s births
1803 deaths
Painters from Boston
Cultural history of Boston
American portrait miniaturists
18th-century American painters
18th-century American male artists
American male painters
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists