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| The following, submitted December 2004, is from Elizabeth W. Knowlton, Researcher.
Caleb Boyle appears in an unpublished manuscript in the NY Genealogical and
Biographical Society in NYC called Macy, William A. STANTON FAMILY IN NEW YORK [manuscript, ca. 1910]
He married Elizabeth Stanton, dau of George and Angenetje Blanck Stanton,
on June 26, 1791, at Trinity Parish Church in NYC. He is estimated by me to have been born between 1840 and 1850. The manuscript states that he was a British
officer in the Revolutionary War in command of a Hessian regiment; however,
I have no proof of this.
There is only one Caleb Boyle in city directories and censuses of the 1790s-1800 period. He lived on John St next door to his father-in-law, George Stanton. He is listed (in Who Was Who) as a chair and carriage painter and then a portrait painter shortly after his wife died in 1798, aged 24.
They had four sons: George, Edward, John, and Henry Titian Boyle. The latter married his cousin, Martha Hatfield Holmes and had descendants, including two physicians, Charles Cumberson Boyle and Stacey Watkins Boyle.
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An early 19th century portrait painter, Caleb Boyle lived in New York City from 1800 to 1805, Baltimore in 1807, Washington DC from 1808 to 1811 and then Baltimore until 1815. At some point he moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey where it is documented that he was doing encaustic portrait painting in 1822.
Among his portrait subjects attributed to him are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay, but beyond those paintings, little that is tangible has been found about his paintings. In New York City, he worked as a carriage maker and painter as well as a portrait painter. In Washington DC, he occupied a studio and museum in a studio built by architect Benjamin Latrobe for Gilbert Stuart.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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