A Massachusetts portrait painter, Robert Peckham was active in the
country districts of New England, but also spent time in Boston and
Northampton after his marriage.
By 1821, he was settled in Westminster where he
established a reputation for portrait painting, described by one art
historian as "flat, hard and stiff." (Opitz) Among his subjects
was John Greenleaf Whittier.
Robert Peckham was also a
Congregational Church activist, especially in the temperance an (showing 500 of 1630 characters). |
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