Biografie von Thomas H. PARKER (1801-1851)

Birth place: Sag Harbor, NY

Addresses: Active in Hartford, CT; NYC; Vermont; and the South

Profession: Miniaturist

Studied: Matthew Rogers, NYC.

Comments: He and one of his pupils, Charles William Eldridge (see entry), worked in partnership that was similar to Waldo & Jewett. After Eldridge had studied for a year with Parker in Hartford, they joined together and for the next nine years painted portraits in NYC, Vermont (1833), and in the South, until Parker retired due to illness.

Sources: G&W; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 66 and 78; Bolton, Miniature Painters; Fielding; Eldridge, "Journal of a Tour through Vermont to Montreal and Quebec in 1833."