Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Eddy, Oliver Tarbell |
Date Born |
1799 |
Birthplace |
Weathersfield, Vermont |
Deceased |
1868 |
Place of Death |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Father |
Eddy, Issac |
Spouse |
Eddy, Jane Maria Burger |
Children |
Eddy, Henry Clay Adams, Henrietta Eddy Wingate, Jennie Eddy Eddy, Roswell |
Occupation |
artist |
Notes |
Oliver Tarbell Eddy, American (1799-1868) was born in Greenbush, Vermont, the oldest son of inventor, printer, and engraver Isaac Eddy, who traced his ancestry back to the Mayflower. Although his father instructed him how to engrave on copper, Eddy evidently taught himself how to paint. He married Jane Maria Burger, daughter of the silversmith Thomas Burger, in Newburgh, New York in 1822. Eddy was active as a portrait and miniature painter in New York City by 1826, and exhibited a portrait at the National Academy of Design the following year. He moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1831 and then to Newark in 1835. Eddy was extremely successful in Newark and painted at least thirteen portraits of members of the family of a hat manufacturer named William Rankin. Eddy lived in Baltimore from 1842 to 1850, painting portraits and inventing a precursor to the typewriter. He lived in Philadelphia until his death. |
