Charles Osgood
Illustration — Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum) Charles Osgood (1809–1890) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts, who also worked briefly in Boston and New York City. Examples of his work are in the American Antiquarian Society, Historic New England, Harvard University, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Peabody Essex Museum.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood · Massachusetts Historical Society / Jenny Hale Pulsipher "Subjects... Unto the Same King": New England Indians and the Use of Royal Political Power. Massachusetts Historical Review, Vol. 5 (2003) · Public domain
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- 1809 · Salem.
- Died
- 1890 · Salem.
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- United States
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- painter
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- portrait
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Illustration — Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum) Charles Osgood (1809–1890) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts, who also worked briefly in Boston and New York City. Examples of his work are in the American Antiquarian Society, Historic New England, Harvard University, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Peabody Essex Museum.
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Born at Salem in 1809, died in Salem in 1890.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Charles Osgood is recorded in the collections of Peabody Essex Museum and Harvard Art Museums.
Portrait of Edward August Holyoke (1728–1829) at age 100. Lithograph by Pendleton's Lithography, from a portrait by Charles Osgood.
Charles Osgood · Memoir of Edward A. Holyoke, M.D., LL.D (Boston 1829), frontispiece (from a copy in the U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Charles Osgood - John Winthrop (1588-1649) - H9 - Harvard Art Museums
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