Chester Harding (painter)
Chester Harding | |
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
Alma mater | Philadelphia Academy of Design |
Spouse |
Caroline Matilda Woodruff
(m. 1815; died 1845) |
Chester Harding (September 1, 1792 – April 1, 1866)[1] was an American portrait painter known for his paintings of prominent figures in the United States and England.
Early life
Harding was born at
Career
In the
He painted several other portraits at Pittsburgh, and then went to Paris, Kentucky, where he finished 100 portraits in six months at $25 each. He made enough money to take him to the schools at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He then established himself in St. Louis, and eventually went on the road as an itinerant portrait painter. In August 1823, he went to England and set up a studio in London, and spent three years in studying and painting. He met with great success, painting royalty and the nobility, and, despite the lack of an early education and social experience, he became a favorite in all circles.[3]
On his return to the
He wrote My Egotistography, which was privately printed.[6]
Portraits
He painted portraits of many of the prominent men and women of his time. Among the people who sat for him were
Personal life
On February 14, 1815, Harding was married to Caroline Matilda Woodruff (1795–1845) near
- Mary Ophelia Harding (1818–1892), who married Mayor of St. Louis, in 1839.[2]
- Margaret Eliot Harding (1823–1908), who married Rev. William Orne White (1821–1911) in 1863.[2]
- Brigadier General.
- Horace Harding (1828–1899), a civil engineer.[10]
- James Harding (1830–1902), a General in the Missouri State Guard and Major in the Confederate States Army. He married Christina Amelia Cordell (1834–1899) in 1855.[11]
His wife died on August 27, 1845, in Springfield, Massachusetts.[2] Harding died in Boston on April 1, 1866,[1] and is buried in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield.[12]
Descendants
Through his son Horace, he was the paternal grandfather of
Portrait gallery
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Daniel Boone (unfinished), 1820.
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Daniel Boone, 1820.
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Eben Rollins, c. 1822.
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Loammi Baldwin Jr., 1823.
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Elizabeth Murray Robbins (Mrs.Edward Hutchinson Robbins), 1827
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Sarah Stanton Blake (Mrs. Joshua Blake), c. 1827.
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Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1828.
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Charles Carroll, c. 1828.
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James Monroe, 1829.
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Harrison Gray Otis, 1833.
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Nicholas Brown, Jr., 1836.
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Thurlow Weed, 1843.
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Benjamin Pickman, c. 1843.
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Katherine Bigelow Lawrence (Mrs. Abbott Lawrence), c. 1855.
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U. S. Senator James Lanman
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Death of Chester Harding" (PDF). The New York Times. 4 April 1866. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Abbott, Susan Emma Woodruff (1963). Woodruff Genealogy: Descendants of Mathew Woodruff of Farmington, Connecticut. The Author. pp. 672–673. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ a b c "Chester Harding American, 1792 - 1866". www.nga.gov. National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. .
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Caldwell, John; Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez; Johnson, Dale T. (1994). American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 385–386. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ "Brown University Portrait Collection". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ^ Leah Lipton. "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841–1851." American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 45–57.
- Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers: 618–619.
- ^ Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. 1904. p. 237. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ "Governor Harding" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 April 1930. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ "GENERAL HARDING, EX-ENGINEER, DIES; Former Governor of Panama Canal Zone Was Successor to Goethals in Post. TEACHER AT WEST POINT Engineering Commissioner for District of ColumbiaNoted Portrait Painter" (PDF). The New York Times. 12 November 1936. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
External links
- Chester Harding at Find a Grave
- WorldCat
- Worcester Art Museum. Biography of Harding.
- “Chester Harding,” The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XIX, January, 1867, No, CXI, pp. 485–488 at cdl.library.cornell.edu. Visited 20 December 2010.