Joseph Wood (painter)

{{Short description|American painter (1778 - c.1832)}}

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Joseph Wood (c. 1778 - June 15, 1830) was an American painter noted mainly for his portraits.

Wood was born near Clarkstown, New York, and in 1793 apprenticed to a silversmith. In 1801 he became a miniature painter and studied with Edward Greene Malbone. He then formed a partnership with John Wesley Jarvis, 1802-10, worked in Philadelphia from 1813–1816, then in Washington, D.C., from 1816–1830. In his later years he ran an art school and served as a draftsman for patent applications. He died in Washington, D.C.

References

  • The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915, by Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983.
  • [https://americanart.si.edu/artist/joseph-wood-5472 Smithsonian American Art Museum entry]

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Category:19th-century American painters

Category:1770s births

Category:1830 deaths

Category:Year of birth uncertain

Category:19th-century American male artists

Category:American male painters

Category:American portrait miniaturists

Category:People from Clarkstown, New York

Category:Painters from New York (state)

Category:Painters from Washington, D.C.