Charles Osgood (artist)

Charles Osgood ( born February 25, 1809 in Salem, Massachusetts, † June 2, 1890 ) was an American painter.

Life

Charles Osgood came in 1809 as the son of Captain Nathaniel Osgood and his wife Elizabeth, nee Cowan, was born. He was the second of eight children. In Salem, he attended Mr. Archer 's School. He received his artistic training in Boston with the portrait painter Chester Harding (1792-1866) and copied some of his works, such as the portrait of President John Quincy Adams. At the age of 18 he opened his first atelier. The following year he returned to Salem, where he lived only interrupted by a one-year stay in New York City in 1840, until his death. In 1838 he married Susan ( Susannah ) Ward, who died in 1844 after the birth of the fourth child. About his wife Osgood was related to the painter Abel Nichols (1815-1860) and gave him lessons in painting.

In the work of Charles Osgood, there are even some landscapes, but his main work was on portraits - partially as miniature painting - of citizens of Salem and the surrounding area. Alone from 1827 to 1863, he created so nearly 1,000 works. Among his best known works include the portrait of the originating also from Salem writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Salem's leading portrait painter in the mid-19th century, it was 1863 inclusion in the Essex Institute, a scientific- cultural society. Due to its importance as a chronicler of his times and the regional history in space Salem and Boston, his works are mostly in historic houses and local history museums, such as the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and the Worcester Historical Museum. Among the few art museums, which show his works include the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington (Indiana ) and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ( Maine).