biographie de James Sullivan LINCOLN (1811-1888)

Birth place: Taunton, MA

Death place: Providence, RI

Addresses: Providence, RI

Profession: Portrait painter and engraver

Studied: Apprenticed to an engraver at Providence (R.I.), c. 1825

Member: He was the first president of the Providence Art Club.

Work: Am. Antiq. Soc., Worcester, Mass.

Comments: After 1837 he devoted himself to portrait painting in Providence.

Sources: G&W; G & W state his death occurred in Providence on January 18, 1888--not 1887 as stated by Stauffer, or 1904 as stated by Arnold in Art and Artists in Rhode Island. See Providence, R.I. Alphabetical Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence (under Deaths, 1881-1890); Providence CD 1847+.