Joseph Whiting Stock
Baby in Wicker Basket
Mary and Francis Wilcox
Girl with Reticule and Rose
Joseph Whiting Stock (January 30, 1815 – 1855) was an American painter known for his portraits, miniatures, and landscape paintings, many of which he did on commission.[1] He was born on January 30, 1815 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
When Stock was eleven years old, an oxcart fell on him and he was paraplegic for the rest of his life.[2] After this accident, he began to study painting under Franklin White, a pupil of the painter Chester Harding, on the advice of his physician, and was commissioned to do a series of anatomical drawings by Dr. James Swan in 1834.[3] That year, Dr. Swan constructed a wheelchair which enabled Stock to paint large canvasses and be lifted on trains so as to travel for commissions. For the next two decades Stock accepted commissions for portraits around New England, working in Warren and Bristol, Rhode Island, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Middletown, Goshen, and Port Jervis, New York. His studios were located in his hometown of Springfield throughout this time.
In 1855, Stock died of tuberculosis in Springfield. He was forty years old.[4]
References
"The Collection: Joseph Whiting History". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
"Joseph Whiting Stock: John and Louisa Stock (66.242.19) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". metmuseum.org. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
National Gallery of Art: The Collection: Joseph Whiting Stock
Stock, Joseph Whiting, and Juliette Tomlinson. 1976. The paintings and the journal of Joseph Whiting Stock. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
External links
Finding Aid for the Juliette Tomlinson Research Files on Joseph Whiting Stock The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
National Gallery of Art collection
Metropolitan Museum portrait
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