William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769–1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.
Portraits He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.Boston Directory. 1807, 1823Boston medical and surgical journal, May 13, 1828
As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:
John AdamsWilliam Dunlap. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, Volume 3. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & co., 1918. Google books Elijah BigelowMassachusetts Historical Society catalog. Retrieved 2010-09-02 Jean-Louis Lefebvre de CheverusBolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915 Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822MFA collections. Retrieved 2010-09-01 Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815 Elijah Corey Lydia Gendell Dawes Nicolas Michel Faucon Samuel FosterSamuel Foster participated in the Boston Tea Party participant and fought in the American Revolution. cf. Bolton. 1915; p.45 Gottlieb Graupner, 1807 Clarendon Harris John Hicks, 1806 Benjamin Hurd Jr.Smithsonian John Jones, c. 1815 John May James Melledge, 1811 William PorterHarvard. Retrieved 2010-09-01 Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell Caleb StrongNYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01 James SullivanNYPL. Retrieved 2010-09-01 Isaiah Thomas, 1805American Antiquarian Soc. Retrieved 2010-09-01 Rufus Webb
According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."Encyclopedia of American folk art. 2004; p.139).
Gallery
See also Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)
References
Further reading Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47 C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.
External links
Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828. Historic New England owns works by Doyle.