Portrait of F. Stoddard

Date1833

MediumOil on wood panel

DimensionsSight: 27 7/16 × 22 3/4 in. (69.7 × 57.8 cm)

Object numberN0011.1998

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextAbijah Stoddard was born in Hartford, New York in 1789 and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1861. His second wife is shown in this accompanying portrait. Abijah served with Noah North’s father as a surgeon in 1818 in the 99th regiment of infantry in the New York State militia. He was the pioneer medical man of Pembroke, New York from 1811 until 1854, when he moved to Wisconsin. North was born in Connecticut and settled in the Batavia, New York area in 1808. Evidence suggests that North lived with Milton W. Hopkins’ family in Albion and studied portrait painting with him in the early 1830s. In 1836 he followed Hopkins to Ohio where new markets were flourishing as a result of the waterways connecting them to New York.
Exhibition History“Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, May 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014.

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