Cephas Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was an American painter. He was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts, but traveled extensively down the Atlantic coast and lived far from home for months at a …

Mar 8, 2018 · He traveled to Virginia for the bulk of these commissions, visiting Alexandria, Richmond, and Norfolk for six consecutive winters. Thompson rendered these rare small panel portraits of Norfolk banker Thomas Williamson and his wife Anne McClelland McCauley Walke Williamson, in Norfolk, Virginia (Figs. 1, 2).

Cephas Thompson was one of Virginia’s most prolific portrait painters of the early nineteenth century. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina examined Thompson’s Memorandum of Portraits in which he recorded over five hundred portraits.

Cephas Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, self-taught, early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts.

She died at only 25 years of age and is buried in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery in Alexandria, VA. Oil on canvas portrait painting of Alice Lawrason Riggs (1792-1817), ca. 1817, attributed to Cephas Thompson.

Cephas Thompson was a prolific, self-taught painter from Middleborough, Massachusetts, who earned his living as an itinerant artist. In the early nineteenth century, he traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboard, visiting numerous ports.

Sep 25, 2018 · Although Thompson lived most of his life in Middleborough, he produced portraits throughout New England and from 1800-25 also made annual trips to the south during the winter months to paint in Alexandria, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Norfolk, Virginia, Philadelphia, and the Carolinas and Georgia.

"A Most Favorable and Striking Resemblance: The Virginia Portraits of Cephas Thompson," Winston-Salem, NC: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1997, no. 263. Search millions of objects in the collections including photographs, artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens, manuscripts, sound records, and transcripts.

These paintings were completed circa 1809-1810 and are listed in Cephas Thompson's Memorandum of Portraits. Copies of both portraits by an unknown artist are currently in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society.

Cephas Thompson (1775-1856) was one of Middleboro's most prominent citizens and painted many other people of the town. The elder Thompson also traveled extensively, painting portraits throughout New England as well as in Maryland, Virginia, the …