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|  Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Jerome Thompson became a painter of
luminous landscapes, often allegorical with rural figures in the foreground.
His father was Cephas Thompson, distinguished portrait painter, who
refused to give Jerome art lessons and even destroyed his early
paintings because he wanted him to be a farmer.
As a youth,
Jerome moved with his sister to Barnstable, Massachusetts and earned
money as a sign and portrait painter. He painted Daniel Webster,
and Abraham Quary, the last surviving member of the Nantucket Indian
tribe. In 1835, he opened a portrait studio in New York City, but
a landscape, A Pic Nick, Camden, Maine, that he entered in the
1850 National Academy exhibit, changed the direction of his painting
because it got so much positive reaction.
In 1852, he went to
England for several years of independent study and changed from
exhibiting originals to lithographic reproductions of his work.
These copies earned him financial success. After returning from England
to the U.S., he painted in the Berkshire Mountains, did some romantic
western landscapes and Indian subjects including Hiawatha.
Source:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
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|  The following biography is from Grove Art
Jerome Thompson was
the son of the portrait painter Cephas Thompson (17751856) and the
brother of the artist Cephas Giovanni Thompson (180988). At the age of
17 he opened a portrait studio in Barnstable, MA, and moved to New York
in 1835.
In 1850 he began to exhibit genre subjects, although he never
entirely abandoned portraiture, and after studying in England from 1852
to 1854, he returned to New York where he achieved success with his
rustic genre scenes. These include Apple Gathering (1857; New York,
Brooklyn Mus. A.) and the Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain (1858;
New York, Met.).
His works were particularly praised for the equal
emphasis given to landscape and genre elements within the same picture.
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