HENRY WILLIAMS (American, 1787-1830)
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portrait of Judge George Thatcher (1754-1824)
unsigned, o/cradled panel, 29 by 25 in., unframed
Exhibited in 1889 at the Metropolitan Opera House, NY at the 'Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States-Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics', no. 201, lent by Cape Cod Association, Boston.
Williams was a portrait and miniature painter, a silhouettest, wax-modeler, and engraver in Boston.
George Thatcher, the sitter, was born in Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began his law practice in York, Maine in 1778. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1788 to 1789. Subsequently he was elected to the First, Second and Third Congresses. He served as a judge on the supreme court in Maine from 1820 until his death in 1824.
unsigned, o/cradled panel, 29 by 25 in., unframed
Exhibited in 1889 at the Metropolitan Opera House, NY at the 'Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States-Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics', no. 201, lent by Cape Cod Association, Boston.
Williams was a portrait and miniature painter, a silhouettest, wax-modeler, and engraver in Boston.
George Thatcher, the sitter, was born in Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began his law practice in York, Maine in 1778. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1788 to 1789. Subsequently he was elected to the First, Second and Third Congresses. He served as a judge on the supreme court in Maine from 1820 until his death in 1824.
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2" scrape at upper and lower edge from now missing frame.
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HENRY WILLIAMS (American, 1787-1830)
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