Erastus Salisbury Field
1805-1900 American painter. He studied with Samuel F. B. Morse in New York during the winter of 1824-5. On his return to the rural isolation of Leverett, MA, he painted his earliest known work, the portrait of his grandmother Elizabeth Billings Ashley (Springfield, MA, Mus. F.A.). His career as an itinerant portrait painter began in 1826, most of his commissions coming through a network of family associations in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. The portraits of 1836-40 are considered his best. From 1841 he lived mainly in New York, where he expanded his subject-matter to include landscapes and American history pictures. There he presumably studied photography, for on his return to Massachusetts he advertised himself as a daguerreotypist. His few portraits painted after 1841 are copied from his own photographs and lack the expressive characterization and decorative power of his earlier work. From 1865 to 1885 his paintings were based primarily on biblical and patriotic themes. The Historical Monument of the American Republic (1867-88; Springfield, MA, Mus. F.A.) stands alone in American folk art in size (2.82*3.89 m), scope and imaginative vision. Inspired by plans for a national celebration of the centennial of the USA in 1876, Field painted an architectural fantasy of eight towers linked by railway bridges and trains at the tops, with the history of the USA in low-relief sculpture on the exterior surfaces of the towers. Field added two more towers to the painting in 1888 and thereafter retired.
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Erastus Salisbury Field Historic Monument of the American Republic oil painting


Historic Monument of the American Republic

Painting ID::  4019 		Erastus Salisbury Field
Historic Monument of the American Republic
   
   
     
Erastus Salisbury Field The Garden of Eden oil painting


The Garden of Eden
1865
Painting ID::  4020 		Erastus Salisbury Field
The Garden of Eden
1865
   
   
     
Erastus Salisbury Field Pharoah's Army Marching oil painting


Pharoah's Army Marching
1865-80
Painting ID::  4021 		Erastus Salisbury Field
Pharoah's Army Marching
1865-80
   
   
     
Erastus Salisbury Field Joseph Moore and His Family oil painting


Joseph Moore and His Family
mk77 c.1839 Oil on canvas 82 3/4x93 1/4in
Painting ID::  31917 		Erastus Salisbury Field
Joseph Moore and His Family
mk77 c.1839 Oil on canvas 82 3/4x93 1/4in
   
   
     
Erastus Salisbury Field painted by the American artist Erastus Salisbury Field oil painting


painted by the American artist Erastus Salisbury Field
"Josiah Goddard (1813-1854)," oil on canvas, painted by the American artist Erastus Salisbury Field. 28 3/4 in. Courtesy of the Brown University Portrait Collection, Brown University, Providence, R.I. cjr
Painting ID::  72899 		Erastus Salisbury Field
painted by the American artist Erastus Salisbury Field
"Josiah Goddard (1813-1854)," oil on canvas, painted by the American artist Erastus Salisbury Field. 28 3/4 in. Courtesy of the Brown University Portrait Collection, Brown University, Providence, R.I. cjr
   
   
     
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     1805-1900 American painter. He studied with Samuel F. B. Morse in New York during the winter of 1824-5. On his return to the rural isolation of Leverett, MA, he painted his earliest known work, the portrait of his grandmother Elizabeth Billings Ashley (Springfield, MA, Mus. F.A.). His career as an itinerant portrait painter began in 1826, most of his commissions coming through a network of family associations in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. The portraits of 1836-40 are considered his best. From 1841 he lived mainly in New York, where he expanded his subject-matter to include landscapes and American history pictures. There he presumably studied photography, for on his return to Massachusetts he advertised himself as a daguerreotypist. His few portraits painted after 1841 are copied from his own photographs and lack the expressive characterization and decorative power of his earlier work. From 1865 to 1885 his paintings were based primarily on biblical and patriotic themes. The Historical Monument of the American Republic (1867-88; Springfield, MA, Mus. F.A.) stands alone in American folk art in size (2.82*3.89 m), scope and imaginative vision. Inspired by plans for a national celebration of the centennial of the USA in 1876, Field painted an architectural fantasy of eight towers linked by railway bridges and trains at the tops, with the history of the USA in low-relief sculpture on the exterior surfaces of the towers. Field added two more towers to the painting in 1888 and thereafter retired.

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