Isaac Augustus Wetherby
Isaac Augustus Wetherby (1819-1904) or I.A. Wetherbee was an American painter and photographer. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Iowa. Examples of his work are in the Beverly Historical Society, Massachusetts; Fruitlands Museum; New York Historical Society; and the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Isaac Augustus Wetherby
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- Isaac Augustus Wetherby was born on 6 December 1819. · Providence.
- Died
- Isaac Augustus Wetherby died, sources differ on the date (23 February 1923 and 1 January 1904).
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- United States
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- painter · photographer
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- portrait
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Isaac Augustus Wetherby (1819-1904) or I.A. Wetherbee was an American painter and photographer. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Iowa. Examples of his work are in the Beverly Historical Society, Massachusetts; Fruitlands Museum; New York Historical Society; and the State Historical Society of Iowa.
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Isaac Wetherby (American 1819-1904), oil on canvas portrait of Captain Howes Baker, signed verso, 30" x 25". Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot.
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ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC WETHERBY Massachusetts/Iowa/Rhode Island, 1819-1904 Portrait of a ship captain holding a spyglass. Labeled verso "As signed on back of original canvas in lower right corner: 'Wetherby Pinxit Nov. 1844'".
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Isaac Augustus Wetherby was born at Providence.
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- 1."I.A. Wetherbee, portrait painter, 17-1/2 Tremont Row." Boston Directory, 1849
- 2.Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer photographers from the Mississippi to the continental divide: a biographical dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford University Press, 2005
- 3.Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004
- 4.Smithsonian. Collections search center. Retrieved 2012-01-03
- 5.. Retrieved 2012-01-03
- 6.State Historical Society of Iowa. Retrieved 2012-01-03
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Slonneger, Marybeth. Wetherby's Gallery: paintings, daguerreotypes, & ambrotypes of an artist. Iowa City, Iowa: Hand Press, c2006.
- " ." The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), ca.2009
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