Saturday, June 22, 2019

Noah North

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'''Noah North''' (June 27 1809, [[Alexander, New York]] - June 15 1880, [[Attica, New York]])<ref name="G">[http://bit.ly/2N5aVua ''Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary'' by Jeffrey Weidman] @ Google Books.</ref> was an itinerant American portrait painter in the [[folk art]] tradition.

==Life and work==
He was born to a prominent family that was active in civic affairs, as he would be throughout much of his life. His interest in painting was apparently the result of a friendship with Van Rensselaer Hawkins (1797-1847), an itinerant painter and art teacher who came to live in Alexander.<ref name="A">[http://bit.ly/2KzzkGb Biography] @ AskArt.</ref>

His career as an artist was very brief; almost entirely confined to the 1830s. In addition to Alexander, he also worked in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[Cleveland]] and [[Cincinnati]] (1836/37) and possibly northern Kentucky.<ref name="G" />

His portraits resemble those of [[Ammi Phillips]], another New York painter, originally from Connecticut. [[Milton W. Hopkins]] may have also been an influence as he apparently lived in close proximity to North. In fact, census records indicate that North may have boarded with Hopkins.<ref name="A" />

His style is very simple and also reminiscent of the early New England [[Limner#United States|limners]]. Many of his works feature people holding pets. His first dated portrait is from 1833, although it is identified as "number 11", which naturally suggest that ten paintings have been lost. No signed portraits are known from after 1840.<ref name="A" />

In 1841, he returned to New York, got married, and settled in [[Livingston County, New York|Livingston County]]. From 1845 to 1847, he operated a [[daguerreotype]] studio in [[Mount Morris, New York|Mount Morris]]. He also did occasional work as an ornamental painter, although farming appears to have been his primary activity until his death.<ref name="G" />

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[[Category:1809 births]]
[[Category:1880 deaths]]
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:Folk artists]]
[[Category:Painters from New York (state)]]


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