William M. S. Doyle

William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769–1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.

Portraits

He oversaw the Columbian Museum on Tremont Street in the early 19th century.

As an artist, Doyle created portraits of:

• John Adams
• Elijah Bigelow
• Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
• Anna Brewster Cleland, 1822
• Thomas Ivers Cleland, 1815
• Elijah Corey
• Lydia Gendell Dawes
• Nicolas Michel Faucon
• Samuel Foster
• Gottlieb Graupner, 1807
• Clarendon Harris
• John Hicks, 1806
• Benjamin Hurd Jr.
• John Jones, c. 1815
• John May
• James Melledge, 1811
• William Porter
• Samuel Stockwell and Catherine Stockwell
• Caleb Strong
• James Sullivan
• Isaiah Thomas, 1805
• Rufus Webb

According to historian Charlotte Moore, Doyle's daughter, Margaret Byron Doyle, "also worked as an artist."

Gallery

See also

• Columbian Museum, Boston (1795–1825)

References

Further reading

• Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
• Arthur Kern and Sybil Kern. The pastel portraits of William M.S. Doyle. The Clarion (American Folk Art Museum), 1988; p. 41-47
• C. Moore. "William Massey Stroud Doyle." In: Gerard C. Wertkin, ed. Encyclopedia of American folk art. Taylor & Francis, 2004; p. 139.

External links

• Bostonian Society owns a "pastel self-portrait on paper of Doyle," April 22, 1828.
• Historic New England owns works by Doyle.