18th Century Material Culture

Portrait Artists in America

Joseph Badger

Joseph Badger
- Portrait Artist Born to Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1707
- Began his Career as a House Painter and Glazier
- Married Katharine Felch in 1731
- Moved to Boston in 1733
- Member of the Brattle Street Church
- Died in Boston, Massachusetts in May of 1765 when taken with an apoplectic fit as he was walking
in his Garden, and expired in a few minutes after

John Adams
by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Getty Images)

Grandmother Allen
by Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Benjamin Badger
by Joseph Badger c. 1761
(Winterthur)

James Badger
by Joseph Badger c. 1761
(Winterthur)

Jeremiah Belknap
by Joseph Badger c. 1758
(The Cleveland Museum of Art)

James Bowdoin
by Joseph Badger c. 1746 - 1747
(Detroit Institute of Arts)

Mrs. Nathaniel Brown (Anna Porter) of Charlestown, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

Captain Stephen Brown

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Massachusetts Historical Society ?)

Mrs. Stephen Brown

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Massachusetts Historical Society ?)

Portrait of Two Children - Likely the Children of Captain & Mrs. Stephen Brown of Massachusetts
by Joseph Badger c. 1760
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

Mary Croswell
by Joseph Badger 1763
(Minneapolis Institute of Art)

Thomas Dawes
by Joseph Badger c. 1764
(Unknown)

A Child of the Thomas Dickman Family

by Joseph Badger 1763
(Sothebys)

A Child of the Thomas Dickman Family

by Joseph Badger 1763
(Sothebys)

Jonathan Edwards
by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Mrs. Jonathan Edwards (Abigail Fowle)

by Joseph Badger c. 1750 - 1760
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Jemima Flucker
by Joseph Badger 1760
(Chrysler Museum of Art)

Captain Isaac Foster

by Joseph Badger 1755
(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Mrs. Isaac Foster (Eleanor Wyer)

by Joseph Badger 1755
(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Isaac Foster, Jr.

by Joseph Badger 1755
(National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.)

Dr. William Foster

by Joseph Badger 1755
(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Miss Eleanor Foster

by Joseph Badger 1755
(Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine)

William Foye
by Joseph Badger 1750
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Mrs. William Foye (Elizabeth Campbell)

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

John Gerry
by Joseph Badger 1745
(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

John Gill, Jr.

by Joseph Badger
(Unknown)

Joseph Goldthwaite
by Joseph Badger c. 1745 - 1750
(Skinner)

Abigail Gowen
by Joseph Badger 1763
(Minneapolis Institute of Art)

Elizabeth Gould
by Joseph Badger c. 1755
(Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts)

Reverend Ellis Gray

by Joseph Badger 1758
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Apothecary, Dr. John Greenleaf of Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger c. 1745
(Northeast Auctions)

Elizabeth Greenleaf of Charlestown, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1750
(x)

Priscilla Greenleaf of Charlestown, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1750
(Private Collection)

Jacob Hale
by Joseph Badger 1755
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Mrs. Jacob Hale

by Joseph Badger 1755
(Yale University Art Gallery)

John Haskins
by Joseph Badger 1759
(Brooklyn Museum)

Mrs. John Haskins (Hannah Upham)

by Joseph Badger 1759
(Brooklyn Museum)

John Homans
by Joseph Badger 1755
(Private Collection)

Isaac Jones
by Joseph Badger c. 1756
(Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

John Joy
by Joseph Badger c. 1758
(Unknown)

Mrs. Richard Kent (Hannah Gookin)

by Joseph Badger c. 1746
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Captain John Larrabee

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Worcester Art Museum)

Sarah Larrabee Edes

by Joseph Badger 1760
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Mrs. Nathaniel Loring (May Gyles)

by Joseph Badger c. 1760 - 1763
(Dayton Art Institute)

Captain Daniel Mackay

by Joseph Badger c. 1760
(Addison Gallery of American Art - Andover, Massachusetts)

Captain John Marston

by Joseph Badger c. 1755
(Frick Art Reference Library)

Thomas Mason
by Joseph Badger c. 1750 - 1755
(Historic New England)

Major Samuel Moody

by Joseph Badger 1758
(New Britain Museum of American Art)

Mrs. Samuel Moody (Hannah Minot)

by Joseph Badger 1758
(New Britain Museum of American Art)

Sarah Badger Noyes

by Joseph Badger c. 1760 - 1765
(Dallas Museum of Art)

Timothy Orne of Salem, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1757
(Harvard University ?)

Mrs.Timothy Orne (Rebecca Taylor)

by Joseph Badger 1757
(Harvard University ?)

Rebecca Orne (Later, Mrs. Joseph Cabot) of Salem, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1747
(Worcester Art Museum)

Louis Orne (Later, Mrs. William Paine)

by Joseph Badger 1757
(Worcester Art Museum)

A Ship Master of the Parker Family

by Joseph Badger c. 1760
(Northeast Auctions)

James Pitts
by Joseph Badger c. 1750 - 1754
(Detroit Institute of Arts)

Reverend Thomas Prince, Minister of Old South, Boston

by Joseph Badger, After John Greenwood c. 1750
(American Antiquarian Society)

Elizabeth Quincy (Later Mrs. John Wendell)

by Joseph Badger c. 1724
(Private Collection / Frick Art Reference Library)

Daniel Rea
by Joseph Badger 1757
(Butler Institute of American Art)

Death Portrait of Elizabeth Royall, Daughter of Loyalist Isaac Royall of Medford, Massachusetts
by Joseph Badger 1747
(New England Historic Genealogical Society)

Major Thomas Savage

by Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Andrew Sigourney
by Joseph Badger
(Sothebys)

Mrs. Andrew Sigourney

by Joseph Badger
(Sothebys)

Captain Thomas Shippard

by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Mrs. Thomas Shippard

by Joseph Badger
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Mrs. Isaac Smith (Elizabeth Storer)

by Joseph Badger 1746
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Thomas Stevenson
by Joseph Badger
(Massachusetts Historical Society?)

Mrs. Thomas Stevenson

by Joseph Badger
(Massachusetts Historical Society?)

A Member of the Tuke Family Holding a Cat

by Joseph Badger c. 1745
(Chrysler Museum of Art)

Joseph Tyler
by Joseph Badger
(Newark Museum)

Cornelius Waldo
by Joseph Badger 1750
(Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts)

Mrs. Cornelius Waldo (Faith Savage)

by Joseph Badger 1750
(Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts)

Reverend William Welsteed

by Joseph Badger c. 1752
(Massachusetts Historical Society)

George Whitefield
by Joseph Badger c. 1750 - 1755
(Harvard University Art Museums)

Helen Willis
by Joseph Badger c. 1740
(John Gordon Gallery, New York)

John Winslow / Gen John Winslow Louisburg 1745

Possibly by Joseph Badger c. 1740 - 1750
(Historic New England)

Penelope Winslow
Possibly by Joseph Badger c. 1740 - 1750
(Historic New England)

Portrait of a Lady
by Joseph Badger
(Keys Fine Art Auctioneers)

Portrait of a Child
by Joseph Badger c. 1750
(Chrysler Museum of Art)

Portrait of a Young Lady

by Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Portrait of a Young Lady

by Joseph Badger c. 1750 - 1760
(Yale University Art Gallery)

Portrait of a Young Boy

by Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Portrait of a Young Girl

by Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Portrait of a Boy
Attributed to Joseph Badger
(Leland Little Auctions)

Portrait of a Girl
Attributed to Joseph Badger
(Leland Little Auctions)

Portrait of a Girl
Attributed to Joseph Badger
(Bonhams)

Portrait of a Boy
Attributed to Joseph Badger
(Private Collection)

Missing Portraits
- Mrs. John Adams (Susanna Parker)
- Rebecca Barrett
- The Bray Family (Likely destroyed when the bakers house burned 3 February, 1767
- John Carnes
- Mary Cooper
- Reverend William Cooper of the Brattle Square Church
- Reverend Andrew Croswell
- Thomas Cushing
- Edward Gray
- Mrs. William Gray (Elizabeth Hall)
- Mrs. Lemuel Hayward (Sarah Savage)
- Mrs. Edward Augustus Holyoke (Mary Vial)
- John Homans
- Mrs. John Homans
- Mrs. Henderson Inches (Sarah Jackson)
- Joseph Jackson
- Reverend Joseph Jackson
- Sarah Jackson

Missing Portraits
- Reverend Dudley Leavitt
- Mrs. Dudley Leavitt (Mary Pickering) and Her Daughter, Sarah
- Mary Leavitt
- Mrs. Daniel MacKay
- William Merchant
- Mrs. Joseph Orne (Mary Leavitt)
- Timothy Orne, Jr.
- Mrs. Jonathan Payson (Sarah Leavitt)
- Mrs. Clark Gayton Pickman (Sarah Orne)
- Mrs. Edmund Quincy
- Mrs. Norton Quincy
- James Russell
- Sarah Savage
- Mrs. William Story (Elizabeth Marion)
- Samuel Torrey
- Thomas Turner
- Sarah Tuttle

Missing Portraits
- Mrs. Joseph Tyler (Francis Tyng)
- William Tyler

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