biography of Mary Holyoke WARD (1800-1880)

Birth place: Salem, MA

Profession: Portrait painter, copyist

Comments: Known to have made copies after Copley and Frothingham. In 1833 she married Dr. Andrew Nichols; she was a sister-in-law of Charles Osgood and aunt of Abel Nichols and Sarah Nichols (see entries on each).

Sources: G&W; Belknap, Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County, 14; Nichols, "Abel Nichols, Artist."