Phelps, William Preston (1848-1923)

Name:

Phelps, William Preston (1848-1923)

Title:

Founder, Munich Art Club

Other Names:

Phelps, William P.

Born:

03/06/1848

Birthplace:

Dublin, NH

Died:

01/06/1923

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Chesham, NH 1848-186 ,1890-1917
Lowell, MA 186 1877-1878, 1881-1890, 1917
Munich, Germany 1875-1877, 1878-1881
New Hampshire State Hospital, Concord, NH 1917-1923

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Sign Painter
Ornamental Painter
Landscape Painter
Artist

Father:

Phelps, Jason

Mother:

Knowlton, Mary Webster

Spouse:

(1) Anna Maria Kittredge (1844-1901), June 16, 1868
(2) Lucy Meliss Caryl, 1906

Children:

Arthur Preston, born 1869; died 1870
Ina Kittredge, born 1871; died 1944
Edward Clayton, born 1874; died 1901
Alice Laura, born 1879; died 1939

Notes:

Charles E. Hurd, "A Painter of Monadnock," New England Magazine, (February 1897), 363-373.

Rolf H. Kristiansen and John J. Leahy, Rediscovering Some New England Artists, 1875-1900: Biographies and Memorabilia of Some Little Known and Forgotten Master New England Painters. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Gardner-O'Brien Associates, 1987), 139-154.

Oliver S. Phelps and Andrew T. Servin, Compilers. The Phelps Family of America, and Their Ancestors, With Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and Other Interesting Papers, Coats of Arms and Valuable Records. Volume II. (Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899), 1664.

W. P. Phelps Auction Catalog. (Lowell, Massachusetts: J. E. Conant Co., 1917).

William Preston Phelps Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives