Biografie von Joseph Thoits MOORE (1796-1854)

Birth place: North Yarmouth, ME

Death place: Montgomery, AL

Addresses: North Yarmouth, ME, 1796-1816; Chillicothe, OH, 1816-28; Montgomery, AL, 1828-54

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: Phila., 1825 (studied portrait painting); possibly with Sully

Work: Ross Co. Hist. Soc., Chillicothe, OH (portrait of Jonathan Woodside); Ohio Hist.Soc.Glendower Museum, Lebanon, OH (portrait of Dr. William Mounts)

Comments: He was the uncle of Charles Soule (see entry) and father of Harriet N.M. Hosea (see entry). A chairmaker by training, he and his brother Samuel were in business together in Chillicothe until 1823. Samuel returned to Maine and Joseph concentrated on painting. He traveled and studied from other painters, sketching in museums and galleries. In 1825 he painted near Portland (ME) and in 1827 returned to Chillicothe. He then began the lifestyle of an itinerant portrait painter. He was at New Orleans in 1837, and in1838 at Montgomery (AL). His first wife died and in 1847 he married again. While in Alabama he painted over four-hundred portraits. He died of yellow fever in 1854.

Sources: G&W; info cited by G&W as being courtesy Miss Lucharlle Wilson, via FARL; Art in America (Dec. 1933), 31; Delgado-WPA cites New Orleans CD 1837; letter, Ala. Dept. of Archives and History, Jan. 8, 1942. More recently, see, Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists. Hageman, 78-81