William M. S. Doyle
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William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769–1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.
Portraits
He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.[1][2]
As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
- John Adams[3]
 - Elijah Bigelow[4]
 - Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus[5]
 - Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822[6]
 - Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815[6]
 - Elijah Corey[4]
 - Lydia Gendell Dawes[4]
 - Nicolas Michel Faucon[4]
 - Samuel Foster[7]
 - Gottlieb Graupner, 1807[6]
 - Clarendon Harris[4]
 - John Hicks, 1806[6]
 - Benjamin Hurd, Jr.[8]
 - John Jones, c. 1815[6]
 - John May[4]
 - James Melledge, 1811[6]
 - William Porter[9]
 - Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell[6]
 - Caleb Strong[10]
 - James Sullivan[11]
 - Isaiah Thomas, 1805[12]
 - Rufus Webb[4]
 
According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."[13]
Gallery
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Advertisement for Wm. M.S. Doyle, 1808 -  			
Silhouette portrait of Catholic priest John Cheverus, of the Holy Cross Church, Boston, 19th century -  			
Portrait of a woman, 1810 (Smithsonian) -  			
Portrait of Samuel Stockwell, 1810 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) -  			
Portrait of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong, 1814; drawn by Doyle, engraved by I.R. Smith 
See also
- Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)
 
References
- ^ Boston Directory. 1807, 1823
 - ^ Boston medical and surgical journal, May 13, 1828
 - ^ William Dunlap. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, Volume 3. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918. Google books
 - ^ a b c d e f g Massachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02
 - ^ Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915
 - ^ a b c d e f g MFA collections. Retrieved 2010-09-01
 - ^ Samuel Foster participated in the Boston Tea Party participant and fought in the American Revolution. cf. Bolton. 1915; p.45
 - ^ Smithsonian
 - ^ Harvard. Retrieved 2010-09-01
 - ^ NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
 - ^ NYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01
 - ^ American Antiquarian Soc. Retrieved 2010-09-01
 - ^ Encyclopedia of American folk art. 2004; p.139).
 
Further reading
- Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
 - Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47
 - C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.
 
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to William M. S. Doyle.
- Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
 - Historic New England owns works by Doyle.