Samuel Lovett Waldo

1783 - 1861  (77 years)

• Name	Samuel Lovett Waldo
  Birth	6 Apr 1783	Windham, Windham, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Feb 1861	New York, New York   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Burial	20 Feb 1861	Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I37976	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TS
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Zacheus Waldo,   b. 20 Nov 1756, Windham, Windham, Connecticut d. 3 Oct 1834, Windham, Windham, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Esther Stevens,   b. 30 Jun 1758, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 22 Aug 1825, Windham, Windham, Connecticut (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	12 Apr 1781	Windham, Windham, Connecticut   [1, 6]
  Family ID	F22315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deliverance Mapes,   b. 6 Dec 1797   d. 4 May 1865, New York, New York (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	8 May 1826	John Street Methodist Church, New York, New York   [1, 7, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Clara Waldo,   b. 4 Nov 1829, New York, New York d. 24 Dec 1861, New York, New York (Age 32 years) + 2. Howard Waldo,   b. 12 May 1832, New York, New York d. Aft 1901, Campbell Hall, Orange, New York (Age > 70 years)
  Family ID	F22317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He was a noted American portrait painter. Although none of the sources below mention it, it would appear that he and his second wife Deliverance were Swedenborgians. From Wikipedia (accessed 5 July 2022): Waldo was born on April 6, 1783 in Windham, Connecticut, the son of Esther (née Stevens) and Zacheus Waldo. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Hartford to begin his formal art training under the tutelage of Joseph Steward, a prominent local artist. Four years later, he set up shop as a portraitist in Hartford, later relocating to Litchfield, Connecticut. While in Hartford, he had made the acquaintance of congressman John Rutledge, Jr., who was impressed with his work and, in 1803, invited him to come to Charleston, South Carolina. From 1803 to 1805, Waldo earned a sizable income from his commissions and decided that he would use the money to study art in London. He studied under Benjamin West in London. He arrived in London in 1806 with letters of introduction to Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. While studying with them, he also studied drawing at the Royal Academy and exhibited a portrait there in 1808. Between his artistic activities, he met and married Elizabeth Wood of Liverpool in 1808. Together they had five children that survived infancy. Elizabeth died in 1825 and the following year, on 9 May 1826, he married Deliverance Mapes and had seven more children. In 1809, he returned to the United States and established a portrait studio in New York City. Three years later William Jewett (d. 24 March 1874), a young coach painter from New London, Connecticut who wanted to be a fine artist, approached Waldo and asked to be taken in as an apprentice. Waldo agreed and allowed him to live with his family during his time of study. In 1818, they entered into a formal partnership which lasted until 1854, when Jewett retired. As a team, it is generally believed that Waldo painted the head and hands of their subjects, while Jewett filled in the clothing and draperies. In addition to his painting, Waldo served as a director of the American Academy of the Fine Arts from 1817 until its dissolution in 1841. He was also a founding member of the National Academy of Design. From the web page of the Worcester Art Museum: Waldo's studio was popular in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and he painted many merchants, public officials, and fellow artists. His prominent sitters include General Andrew Jackson (1817, three versions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., and Historic New Orleans). Although he is known as a portraitist, Waldo also experimented with landscape, as he indicated in an 1819 letter to fellow painter Thomas Sully: "I have just returned from an excursion up the North River where Jewett and I have been making sketches and painting Landscapes for five weeks past." Waldo was active in the most prestigious fine arts institutions of his day. In 1817, he was elected one of the directors of the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. He continued in that office until the Academy was dissolved in 1840. He also exhibited portraits and copies after Old Master paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1826 he was among the founding members of the National Academy of Design, the New York institution that replaced the former American Academy in function and prestige. In 1846, Waldo became an associate member of the National Academy. Waldo died in 1861 and National Academy president Daniel Huntington organized a small memorial exhibition in his honor.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6422] Genealogy of the Waldo Family: A Record of the Descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Mass. from 1647 to 1900 by Waldo Lincoln. Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1902. [S6430] Find a Grave page for Samuel Lovett Waldo. [S6438] "Artist Biography: Samuel L. Waldo." The Crayon volume 8, number 5, May 1861, page 98., year and place only. [S6570] [S6430] Find a Grave page for Samuel Lovett Waldo., place only. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S6431] Find a Grave page for Deliverance Mapes Waldo., year only. [S3982] New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949, on ancestry.com., month, year, and place only.