| The son of a maker of carriage bodies, James Frothingham was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston in 1786. He began his
life as a chaise painter in his father's chaise manufactory, where he
taught himself to paint the finished coaches. He experimented in
sketching and taught himself the principles of portraiture. By
1806, he had become a professional painter, after receiving minimal
instruction from an obscure student of Gilbert Stuart named Fabius
Whiting, a younge (showing 500 of 2916 characters). |
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