biografía de Harriet Newell Moore HOSEA (1820-1875)

Lugar de nacimiento: Chillicothe, OH

Lugar de defunción: Cincinnati, OH

Direcciones: Chillicothe, 1820-26; Montgomery, AL,1826- 36; Cincinnati, c.1844-75

Profesión: Miniaturist

Obra: Frick Art Coll., NY (portrait of William Henry Harrison, 1838)

Comentarios: Youngest in a family of artists, she was undoubtedly influenced by her father, Joseph Thoits Moore (see entry). At age eighteen she met a former Ohio friend, Robert Hosea in Louisiana and they married the same year. A steamboat captain, he later became a successful businessman and he and Harriet and their children belonged to the premier families in Cincinnati. Cofounder of the Ladies' Acad. Fine Arts, a forerunner of the Cincinnati Art Mus.

Fuentes: G&W; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841, 141; Portfolio (April 1946), 190, repro. Hageman, 70-71(incl.repros).