Joseph Oriel Eaton
Joseph Oriel Eaton, an American painter of portraits and figure subjects, both in oil and in water-colours, was born in 1829.
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 Portrait of Herman Melville, 1870 |
His most famous work is his portrait of Herman Melville, the author of The Whale, more commonly known as Moby Dick in 1851.
He died at Yonkers on the Hudson in 1875.
Mother and Children in an Interior
Among his exhibited works were:
- Landscape: View on the Hudson. 1868.
- Multiple portraits of John Means of Kentucky. 1868
- Greek Water-Carrier. 1872.
- Lady Godiva. 1874.
- Looking through the Kaleidoscope. 1875.
- His own Portrait. 1875. (National Academy of Design).
Eaton was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1866.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eaton, Joseph O.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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