Moses B. Russell (1809-1884)
Moses B. Russell, portrait and miniature portrait painter, and daguerreotypist, born in Woodstock, New Hampshire on April 5, 1809. He began work in Boston in 1833 where he exhibited at the Boston Anthenaeum, the Harding Gallery, the Boston Art Association, and the Boston Mechanics Association. His 1841 entry in the BMA exhibition, he won a silver medal for several of the miniatures described as, “undoubtedly the best in the Exhibition.” In 1839, he married fellow miniaturist Clarissa Peters of Andover, Massachusetts. He spent 1854-1861 in New York, and he traveled to Italy in 1853. Russell died in 1884.
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