biography of Daniel WADSWORTH (1771-1848)

Birth place: New Haven, CT

Death place: Hartford, CT

Addresses: Hartford

Profession: Amateur artist, collector

Work: Connecticut Hist. Soc.(two watercolor views of his own mansion)

Comments: A Hartford merchant and nephew by marriage of John Trumbull (see entry), Wadsworth is remembered chiefly as the founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum Gallery in Hartford in 1844. His own work in watercolors included sketches made on a trip to Quebec in 1819, some of which were engraved to illustrate his published account of the trip .

Sources: G&W; Connecticut Hist. Soc. Bulletin, XIX (Jan. 1954), 22-25; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 9-11.