Samuel Stillman Osgood (June 9, 1808 – 1885) was a 19th-century American portrait painter.
Biography
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut to James Osgood and Elizabeth Badger. He studied painting in Boston, Massachusetts. After his marriage to poet Frances Sargent Locke he continued his art education at the Royal Academy in London.[1] Upon returning to America he settled in New York City, where he was made an associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1849 he went to California where he stayed nearly a year, prospecting for gold and painting portraits in San Francisco.
His wife died of tuberculosis in 1850. Osgood designed her memorial at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was buried. Inspired by her poem "The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre", Osgood designed a 15-foot memorial: a white marble base topped by a bronze lyre crowned by a laurel wreath. Four of the five strings of the lyre were designed as cut (symbolizing his wife and three daughters, who were all dead by 1851). On his death, he asked his second wife to cut the fifth string.[2]
Portrait work
Frances Sargent Osgood
Edgar Allan Poe
Davy Crockett
John Sutter
Henry Clay
Alice Cary
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Thomas Campbell
Mary E. Hewitt
Caroline E. S. Norton.
Gallery
Edgar Allan Poe
Notes
Silverman, p. 281
Linden, Blanche M. G. Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007: 197. ISBN 1-55849-571-1
References
New-York Historical Society. Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New-York Historical Society. New York: Printed for the Society, 1915. googlebooks Accessed February 29, 2008
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. ISBN 0-06-092331-8
External links
Samuel Stillman Osgood at AskArt.com
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