Title |
Keenan, William |
Date |
b. ca. 1810 |
Description |
William Keenan, a native of South Carolina born ca. 1810, worked as an engraver and lithographer in Philadelphia 1830-1833.
Listed in Philadelphia city directories at 45 Sansom Street, the address was also used in the mid-1820s by engraver and lithographer
Cephas G. Childs and "Mr. Doughty," i.e., artist Thomas Doughty. The boarding house of Solomon Marache also operated at 45
Sansom Street 1815-1845. Keenan returned to South Carolina in the mid-1830s, where by 1850 he worked as an engraver and resided
in Charleston with his wife Sarah (b. ca. 1822) and their son Sydney (b. ca. 1848).
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Keenans' work in Philadelphia included illustrations for several gift books. He also produced landscapes, portraits, and medals
and engraving on silver (by the late 1840s and 1850s).
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Childs, C. G. and Doughty, Thomas. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 |
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Groce & Wallace, 362 |
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Philadelphia City Directories, 1830-1833 |
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Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston (1949), 156 |
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WWWAA, 1807 |