Description:
half length portrait of seated woman in dark dress with wide lace collar and lace bonnet, holding a red book, hair parted in the middle; woman; costume/uniform
Label Text:
Born on a farm in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Joseph Goodhue Chandler was an itinerant painter working primarily in northwest Massachusetts. He began his career as a cabinet maker but traveled to Albany, New York, at a young age to study painting. After his apprenticeship in Albany he married another Massachusetts painter, Lucretia Anne Waite. The couple eventually moved to Boston and ran a prolific studio. It has been reported that the two artists sometimes collaborated on works and that Waite often finished her husband's portraits. Chandler signed and dated most of his works, an unusual practice for American folk painters. The sitter, Mrs. P. Russell, and its companion portrait of Dr. P. Russell are examples of Chandler's earlier works, dating before his move to Boston.
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