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Charles Porter

Charles Ethan Porter (1847 - 1923) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York.  Charles Porter is known for Fruit and floral still life painting.

Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth

Charles Ethan Porter

Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result from work, but it was somewhat more permeable for Blacks with unique talents or abilities.  Such a person was Charles Porter, who has recently been rediscovered as a major 19th painter.  Only a small portion of his works are known today, and what we do have tends to be work done in old age after the height of his creative vigor had already passed.

Porter's family had lived in Hartford since the 18th century, but his father moved to a house in Rockville while Charles was a young boy (we are not sure of his birth date, which was approximately 1847-50).  It appears that, although Porter kept a studio in a tower on a Rockville hilltop not far from his family's home, by 1877 he had also established a studio in downtown Hartford in the t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6722 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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