biografía de Lewis PECKHAM (1788-1822)

Lugar de nacimiento: Newport, RI

Lugar de defunción: Vincennes, IN

Direcciones: moved from Boston to Vincennes after 1810 and worked there until his death

Profesión: Portrait painter, miniaturist

Estudios: Boston, c.1810

Obra: Indianapolis Mus. Art

Comentarios: Peckham was in the Battle of Tippecanoe under William Henry Harrison. Stationed in Boston in 1810, he was encouraged as a painter by Gilbert Stuart. Peckham worked in Vincennes in a studio partnership with C.D. Cook.

Fuentes: G&W; Peckham, Peckham Genealogy; Burnet, Art and Artists of Indiana, 387; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 253 (with repro.).