biography of Thomas Truman SPEAR (1803-c.1882)
Birth place: Massachusetts
Profession: Portrait, miniature & historical painter
Exhibited: Boston Atheaneum, 1838-56
Comments: He worked in Boston principally, though he made frequent visits to Charleston (SC) between 1833-51. He made copies of Stuart's Washington and Allston's Belshazzar's Feast."
Sources: G&W; Swan, BA; 7 Census (1850), Mass., XXV, 597 [aged 50]; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston; Boston BD 1841-60+; Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 157."