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Rufus Hathaway (1770–1822) was an American physician and folk art painter. He lived in southern Massachusetts, where he painted numerous portraits between 1790 and 1795.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vose Galleries – Rufus Hathaway )〕 He later studied medicine and established himself as a doctor at Duxbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rufus Hathaway )〕 Hathway was born in Freetown, Massachusetts, and was the eldest of six children born to Asa Hathaway and Mary Phillips;〔 his father and grandfather were ship carpenters.〔('Primitive' artist's work offers glimpse of past ). Donna MacLearn, ''The Patriot-Ledger'', June 17, 1987.. Retrieved 7 February 2015.〕 The family moved several times, settling in Bristol, Rhode Island in the mid-1780s.〔 The source of Hathaway's artistic training is unknown, though it is believed he may have worked as a decorative artist or apprentice ship-carver; as a painter he appears to have been self-taught.〔 He is known to have been active in the vicinity of Taunton, Massachusetts in 1790. Hathaway arrived in Duxbury in 1791, and began painting portraits of members of locally prominent families. In 1795 he married Judith Winslow, the daughter of a locally important merchant. He took up medicine at this time, possibly at the behest of his new wife's family,〔 studying with Dr. Isaac Winslow of Marshfield. He seems to have abandoned painting, as very few works by his hand are known after the time of his marriage,〔 although paintings dating to as late as 1808 are known.〔 Hathaway had twelve children by Judith; at one time the only physician in Duxbury, he was highly respected in the field, and was elected Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society shortly before his death.〔 One of his granddaughters was the abolitionist and suffragist Judith Winsor Smith,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judith Winsor Smith )〕 and surgeon Frederick Winsor was a great-nephew.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winsor, Frederick )〕 Thirty-three portraits by Hathaway are known to exist, dating almost exclusively to the years between 1790 and 1795;〔 all are of relatives and friends. He also painted landscapes, portrait miniatures, and overmantels.〔 〔〔 One genre painting, the ''Welch Curate'' of about 1800, is known; it was adapted from an English mezzotint. Furthermore, he is known to have created at least one wood carving, a figure of an eagle used to crown a temporary arch constructed to inaugurate a new bridge over the Bluefish River,〔 and he carved the frames to some of his paintings. Hathaway was remembered as a physician on his epitaph, which he may have composed himself.〔 A bill of sale for six portraits of the Weston family exists, dating to 1793; it indicates that the paintings cost six pounds, and that Hathaway charged a further three shillings for the frame on the portrait of Ezra Weston. In 2006, a pair of portraits, of Josiah Dean III and his wife, Sarah, were sold at Sotheby's, fetching $380,000 for the pair.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Josiah Dean III and his wife, Sarah by Rufus Hathaway – Blouin Art Sales Index )〕 ==Selected works== * ''Lady with Her Pets'', 1790, Metropolitan Museum of Art: his earliest known work〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rufus Hathaway – Lady with Her Pets (Molly Wales Fobes) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art )〕 * ''Joseph Robertson Tolman'', c. 1795, formerly Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (sold 1999)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= *Rufus Hathaway (1770–1822) )〕 * ''Sylvia Church Weston Sampson'', 1793, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sylvia Church Weston Sampson )〕 * ''Lucy Winsor'', c. 1794, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland * ''Joshua Winsor (1748–1827)'', 1793, formerly New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts (sold) * ''Seth Winsor'', c. 1793–95, RISD Museum〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Portrait of Seth Winsor )〕 * ''A View of Mr. Joshua Winsor's House & c.'', c. 1793–95, American Folk Art Museum〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Collection – American Folk Art Museum )〕 * three portraits (of Ezra Weston, his wife Jerusha, and his daughter Maria), Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (attributed) 〔(Portrait of Ezra Weston ) at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2015.〕〔(Portrait of Jerusha Bradford Weston ) at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2015.〕〔(Portrait of Maria Weston ) at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Retrieved 7 February 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rufus Hathaway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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