biography of Lewis PECKHAM (1788-1822)

Birth place: Newport, RI

Death place: Vincennes, IN

Addresses: moved from Boston to Vincennes after 1810 and worked there until his death

Profession: Portrait painter, miniaturist

Studied: Boston, c.1810

Work: Indianapolis Mus. Art

Comments: Peckham was in the Battle of Tippecanoe under William Henry Harrison. Stationed in Boston in 1810, he was encouraged as a painter by Gilbert Stuart. Peckham worked in Vincennes in a studio partnership with C.D. Cook.

Sources: G&W; Peckham, Peckham Genealogy; Burnet, Art and Artists of Indiana, 387; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 253 (with repro.).