Biografie von Lorenzo SOMERBY (1816-1883)

Birth place: Newburyport, MA

Death place: Boston

Addresses: Boston, 1838-83

Profession: Portrait and banner painter

Comments: He was the younger brother of Frederic T. and Horatio G. Somerby (see entries). The Somerby family moved to Boston about 1834. In his early days he did some portraits and from about 1870 he was known as a banner painter.

Sources: G&W; Sears, Some American Primitives, (repro.), 109-10; Vital Records of Newburyport; Boston CD 1838-1883 [date of death in 1883 CD].