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Birth
1814 (Middleboro, Massachusetts)
Death
1886 (Glen Gardner, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New Jersey/New York
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genre-landscape, allegory and portrait painting
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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,
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