biography of Charles OSGOOD (1809-1890)

Birth place: Salem, MA

Death place: Salem, MA

Profession: Portrait and miniature painter

Work: In Mass.: Essex Inst., Salem; American Antiquarian Soc., Worcester; Mass. Hist. Soc., Boston.

Comments: A resident of Salem during most of his career, he also worked in Boston and Roxbury (Mass.) and in NYC. His wife was a sister of the artist Mary Holyoke Ward, whose nephew Abel Nichols received his earliest training under Osgood.

Sources: G&W; Belknap, Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County, 11; Salem CD 1837-60+; Swan, BA; repros., Essex Institute Historical Collections, LXXXV (Jan. 1949), opp. 12, and LXXXVI (April 1950), opp. 104 and 160.