Background
Billings was born November 20, 1824, to wheelwright Ira Billings and Eunice Tryon of Massachusetts.
Billings was born November 20, 1824, to wheelwright Ira Billings and Eunice Tryon of Massachusetts.
He lived in Montgomery, Alabama. Worcester, Massachusetts. And in Boston. Among his numerous portrait subjects were Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garrison and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior
He lived in Montgomery, Alabama, intermittently c.
1850-1859.
And in Worcester, Massachusetts, c. 1854-1856. He "first visited Worcester in 1854. Billings painted several important Worcester residents, including John Davis and Stephen Salisbury.
His work hung in many public buildings including the Worcester County Courthouse and Mechanics Hall."
He moved to Boston in the 1860s, working in the Studio Building on Tremont Street c.
1864-1891. Billings married Frances East. Keller in 1867. Among Billings" possessions was a copy of Walt Whitman"s Two Rivulets, annotated by Whitman, and notably auctioned for a relatively high sum in 1909.
Portrait subjects included:
Portraits by East.T. Billings.