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Article: Moses B. Russell: Yankee miniaturist.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Although time has obscured his name, his art, and the renown of his sitters, Moses B. Russell was a highly celebrated and acclaimed portrait painter in his day. A native of North Woodstock in the wilds of New Hampshire's White Mountains, he went on to become one of Boston's leading miniaturists in the 1830s and 1840s. His small watercolor likenesses on ivory though usually signed, are sometimes confused with those of his wife, Clarissa Peters Russell, whose ethereal portraits of children were the subject of an article in this magazine in December 1999. (1) Moses Russell captured a fascinating range of subjects with exceptional clarity, luminosity, and color, and ...