Erastus salisbury field biography of nancy
Erastus salisbury field biography of nancy
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(1805–1900)
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Place bornLeverett, Massachusetts, United States
Place diedSunderland, Massachusetts, United States
BiographyErastus Salisbury Field was born in Leverett, Massachusetts, in 1805.He and his twin sister, Salome, were named after their parents. Field early demonstrated an artistic talent, and in 1824, at the age of nineteen, he apprenticed in the New York City studio of Samuel F. B. Morse until the sudden death of Morse's young wife in 1825, only three months after Field's arrival.
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Field returned to Leverett, starting a pattern of patronship among relatives and friends that was to spread throughout western Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.
In 1831 he married Phebe Gilmur in Ware, Massachusetts—where he later painted Joseph Moore and his family—and a year later their daughter, Henrietta, was born.
He continued traveling, as far south as Hartford, New Haven, and New Canaan, Connecticut. Field is considere