| Title |
Lawson, T. B. |
| Description |
T.B. Lawson was an artist of sketches and portraits for the premier Philadelphia firm Childs & Inman active 1830-1833. |
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Lawson was probably the artist Thomas B. Lawson who was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on January 13, 1807 and lived in Lowell,
Massachusetts in 1850 with his wife Catharine (b. ca. 1814) and children Frances (b. ca. 1842) and Lella (b. ca. 1848). In
1831, he lived in New York and trained at the National Academy of Design for which Henry Inman (Childs & Inman) was one of
the founders. In 1832, he located to Philadelphia briefly before returning to Newburyport, where he worked as a portrait painter.
Lawson also exhibited work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annual exhibitions for 1876 and 1885.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Childs & Inman. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 |
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Coburn, History of Lowell and Its People (1920), 531 |
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Fielding, 526 |
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Groce & Wallace, 388 |
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Peters, 262 |
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WWWAA, 1968 |
