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Thomas Badger (1792–1868) was an artist in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, in the 19th century. He specialized in portraits. He trained with
John Ritto Penniman. Portrait subjects included: John Abbot; William Allen, of
Bowdoin College
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The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...
;
[Maine Historical Society] Asa Clapp; Julia Margaretta Dearborn; George B. Doane;
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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; Benjamin Page;
Thomas Paul, of Boston's
African Meeting House; Jotham Sewall;
Benjamin Vaughan; Charles Vaughan;
Frances Western Apthorp Vaughan;
George Wadsworth Wells; Jonathan Winship. Around 1849 a still life by Badger in the collection of the
Boston Museum was considered "a highly finished and excellent picture, something in the style of
Van Huysom. There is a truth and reality in the articles represented, seldom seen in this class of pictures."
He married Rebecca Melendy (1795–1852); children included George Washington (died at age 16 in 1853). He was also related to the portrait artist
Joseph Badger
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He was born in Charlestown, Boston, Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell. He "began his career as a house-painter ...
. He died of "lung fever" in Cambridge in 1868. Works by Badger are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum;
Maine Historical Society
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;
Colby College
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; the
Brick Store Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Doyle New York
Retrieved 6 February 2010
Images
Image:HWLongfellow ca1829 byThomasBadger MaineHistSoc.png, ''Portrait of H.W. Longfellow'' by T. Badger, c. 1829
Image:StillLife byThomasBadger.png, Still life, by T. Badger, 19th century
Image:ThomasPaul ca1825 byThomasBadger Smithsonian.jpg, ''Portrait of Thomas Paul'' by T. Badger, c. 1825
References
Further reading
* Thomas Badger: Portrait of an American Painter. Kennebunk, Maine: Brick Store Museum, 1993.
External links
* WorldCat
Badger, Thomas 1792-1868
Chrysler Museum of Art
Badger's ''Still Life with Fruit and Wine'', c. 1817.
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1792 births
1868 deaths
American portrait painters
Artists from Boston
19th-century American painters
American male painters
19th-century American male artists