Erastus Salisbury Field

Lady of Squire Williams House

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Young Woman in a Blue Dress and wearing a Gold Pocket Watch Chain

Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family

Woman with a Green Book. Louisa Gallond Cook

Mrs. Paul Smith Palmer and Her Twins

Gentleman of Squire Williams House

Paul Smith Palmer

Man with a Tune Book, Possibly Mr. Cook

The Taj Mahal

Pharaoh's Army Marching

Leverett Pond

The Death of the First Born

The Voyage of Life. Youth

Leverett Pond

Erastus Salisbury Field (Leverett, Massachusetts, May 19, 1805 – Sunderland, Massachusetts June 28, 1900) was an American folk art painter of portraits, landscapes, and history pictures.

Erastus Field and his twin sister, Salome, were born in Leverett, Massachusetts, on May 19, 1805. By the age of nineteen, Field had displayed sufficient talent in sketching portraits to be admitted as a student at the studio of Samuel F. B. Morse in New York. Morse closed his studio some three months later, and Field returned to Leverett in 1825.[1][2] His earliest known painting is a portrait of his grandmother, Elizabeth Billings Ashley, painted around 1826.[3]

Field married Phebe Gilmur in Ware, Massachusetts, in 1831. They had one daughter, born in 1832. Field made a good living as a limner or itinerant portrait painter in the 1830s, traveling in western Massachusetts and the Connecticut Valley. He was known for his ability to capture "a good likeness" in a single sitting.[2][4] In the 1840s, the family settled in Greenwich Village in New York, where Field exhibited a few paintings and is thought to have learned the new art of photography. He remained in New York for about seven years before relocating to Sunderland, Massachusetts to manage his ailing father's farm. From about 1847 Field embarked on a new phase of his artistic career, creating landscapes and history paintings, as photography began to supplant painting as the preferred medium for portraiture.[1][2]

Following the death of his wife in 1859, Field and his daughter moved to the settlement of Plumtrees in Sunderland, where he built a studio and continued to paint biblical scenes and Romantic landscapes. From the end of the Civil War he painted mostly historical and patriotic works. His best-known work, the Historical Monument of the American Republic, is a fantastical architectural image of key aspects of American history, inspired by plans for the Centennial Exposition to be held in 1876. Field began work on the large canvas in 1867 and was still adding to it as late as 1888.[3]

Field died at Plumtrees, Sunderland, on June 28, 1900.[1][2]

All together, over 300 surviving works are attributed to Field.[2]

Works
Portraits

References
External video Erastus Salisbury Field Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg
Smarthistory - Erastus Salisbury Field's Portrait of a Young Woman[4]

Notes

Maytham (1963), pp. 31–33
"National Gallery of Art:Erastus Salisbury Field". Retrieved 4 January 2013.
"Erastus Salisbury Field". The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

"Erastus Salisbury Field's Portrait of a Young Woman". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved January 4, 2013.

Bibliography

Maytham, Thomas N. (1963). "Two Faces of New England Portrait Painting: Erastus Field and Henry Darby". Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 61 (323): 30–43. JSTOR 4171376. Retrieved January 4, 2013.

External links

Works by Erastus Salisbury Field at the National Gallery of Art
19th Century American Women by Erastus Salisbury Field

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