Mrs. Nathaniel Brown (Anna Porter Brown). Joseph Badger (ca. 1707–1765).Badger was a portrait artist
Mrs. Nathaniel Brown (Anna Porter Brown). Joseph Badger (ca. 1707–1765).Badger was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 18th century. He painted some 80 portraits of merchants, businessmen, clergy, and other notables, and their wives and children.He “began his career as a house-painter and glazier, and … throughout his life continued this work, besides painting signs, hatchments and other heraldic devices, in order to eke out a livelihood when orders for portraits slackened.” -- source link
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