Samuel Lancaster Gerry

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Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813–1891) was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.Boston Directory, 1868, 1873. He painted portraits and also landscapes of the White Mountains and other locales in New England.Boston Almanac, 1841, 1888.Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne. Chronicles of the White Mountains. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916; p.202. He was affiliated with the New England Art Union, and the Boston Artists' Association.Leah Lipton. The Boston Artists' Association, 1841-1851. American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 45-57. In 1857 he co-founded the Boston Art Club.Private and special statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 10. 1857; p.745.

Born in Boston, Gerry was self-taught as an artist. He showed works in many public settings, such as the 1841 exhibit of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association;3rd exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1841. Boston: TR Marvin, 1841. and an 1879 exhibit of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Catalogue of an exhibition of contemporary art. Alfred Mudge and sons, printers, 1879. He attended the 1860 convention of the National Art Association in Washington, DC.Proceedings of the National Convention of Artists held March 20, 22, and 23, 1858, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., together with the proceedings of the 2d and 3d conventions. William H. Moore, 1860. Students of Gerry included H. Frances Osborne,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition of works by living American artists, Nov. 9 to Dec. 20, 1880. Alfred Mudge and son, 1880; p.14. Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin, Fannie Elliot Gifford, Charles Wesley Sanderson,Clement and Hutton. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7aEVAAAAYAAJ Artists of the nineteenth century and their works]: A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches, 5th ed.. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889. and J. Frank Currier.Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana. Catalogue of paintings & sculpture in the permanent collection. 1909; p.7. With the exception of three years abroad, his professional life was passed chiefly in Boston.{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Gerry, Samuel Lancaster|year=1900}}