welsteed

Updated: July 1, 2025

When he was fifteen years old he painted a portrait of his step-brother, Charles Pelham, now in the family of a great-grandson, Mr. Charles Pelham Curtis, of Boston. At sixteen he published an engraving of Rev. William Welsteed, from a portrait painted by himself. The same year he painted the portrait of a child afterward Dr. de Mountfort now owned in Detroit.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture