Gerry, Samuel Lancaster (1813-1891)

Name:

Gerry, Samuel Lancaster (1813-1891)

Title:

Member, Boston Art Association
President, Boston Art Club, 1858
Member, Walnut Avenue Congregational Church, Boston

Other Names:

Gerry, Samuel L.

Born:

05/10/1813

Birthplace:

Boston, MA

Died:

04/26/1891

Death Location:

Roxbury, MA

Residence:

Boston, MA

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Ornamental Painter
Artist
Portrait Painter, 1854, 1857
Landscape Painter

Father:

Gerry, Reuben W. (1783-1833?)

Mother:

Lombard, Catherine (1789-1843)

Relations:

Partnership, Gerry & Burt, Ornamental Painters, Boston, 1834-1838
(Samuel L. Gerry and James Burt)

Spouse:

Martha Caroline Jewett, October 27, 1836

Children:

Edna
Kate
Allston
Martha Caroline, born 1846; died 1926
Sarah

Notes:

Nancy A. Jarzombek, Boston Art Club, 1855-1950. (Boston, Massachusetts; Vose Galleries, 2000), 31, 72.

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), 89-92.

Advertisement, Boston Traveler, Boston, Massachusetts, October 24, 1834

Marriage Notice, Saturday Morning Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, October 29, 1836.

Advertisement, Christian Citizen, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1, 1840.

Obituary, Boston Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, April 27, 1891.

Samuel L. Gerry, "Old Masters of Boston," New England Magazine, 3(February 1891)6,

Nancy Allyn Jarzombek, Boston Art Club 1855-1950. (Boston, Massachusetts: Vose Galleries of Boston, 2000), 31, 72.

Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge, The Boston Almanac For the Year 1857. (Boston, MA: John P. Jewett & Co., 1857), 150.