Jacob Guptil Fletcher
Jacob Guptil Fletcher (November 22, 1825 – December 3, 1889) was an American artist and
art conservator
.
Born in
portrait painter "from Life or from Photographs; Old Paintings cleaned, repaired and varnished".[1]
He exhibited at the Boston Athenæum in 1858 and 1874.[2] In 1875 Fletcher exhibited two works at the Cincinnati (Hamilton) Industrial Exposition.[3] His painting Still Life with Vase & Grapes (date unknown) was sold at Christie's in New York in 1998 for $3,680.
Fletcher was primarily a portrait painter, and his portraits of Kent Bunting,
Paul Ansel Chadbourne were in the collection of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.[4]
The Emery portrait was destroyed in the 1914 fire at the academy. Whereabouts of the Chadbourne portrait (an Exeter Academy graduate and classical language instructor) are unknown.
Known works
- Still lifes
- La Pensee, exhibited at the 1875 exposition, 2009 whereabouts unknown
- Reading & Reflecting, exhibited at the 1875 exposition, 2009 whereabouts unknown
- Still Life with Vase & Grapes, 2009 whereabouts unknown
- Portraits
- Paul A. Chadbourne, 2009 whereabouts unknown
- Nicholas Emery, destroyed by fire 1914
- Portrait of a woman (possibly mother of Dedham's first school superintendent), April 1869, 20"x24", 2009: Dedham Historical Society, gift of Barbara Sawhill and John Mullaney.
References
- Falk, Peter Hastings (editor), Who Was Who in America Art, 1564–1975 (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999)
- Haverstock, Mary S., Vance, Jeanette M., Meggitt, Brian L., and Weidman, Jeffrey. Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900. A Biographical Dictionary. 3 vols. Kent State University, 2000.
- McMahan, Virgil E. The Artists of Washington, D.C., 1796–1996. Washington, D.C.: Artists of Washington, 1995.
- "Portraits of New Hampshire Governors, Judges, Senators and Other Public Men" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 28 (1874), pp. 446–7.