Background

Samuel Lovett Waldo was born at Windham, Connecticut, one of eight children of Zacheus Waldo and Esther (Stevens) Waldo. His father, a farmer, was a descendant of Cornelius Waldo who emigrated to New England about 1647.

Education

Waldo was educated in the country schools and at the age of sixteen was allowed to go to Hartford to take drawing lessons of an obscure portrait painter named Stewart, who was an indifferent instructor.

Career

Having sold a picture for fifteen dollars, the young student presently (1803) took a studio in Hartford, but he met with scant success and was obliged to supplement his slender income by painting signs. In Litchfield, Connecticut, where he painted several portraits, he met the Hon. John Rutledge of South Carolina, who invited him to go to Charleston. There he met with pronounced success and remained about three years. By 1806 he had laid aside enough money to go to England, with letters to Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley in London. According to Dunlap, he painted a few portraits in London at five guineas each, "but had not employment enough to pay expenses". Returning to America in January 1809, he settled in New York. There for more than fifty years he worked diligently as a portrait painter, after 1820 in partnership with William Jewett, one of his pupils. In 1826 he was one of the thirty founders of the National Academy of Design and in 1847 became an associate. The firm of Waldo and Jewett prospered, and numerous excellent if somewhat literal likenesses were executed by the two painters in collaboration. It is probable that Waldo painted the heads and hands, while his assistant painted the backgrounds and costumes. Examples of their work in public collections include the portrait of G. W. Parke Custis of Arlington, Va. , in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington; a sketch from life of Gen. Andrew Jackson (1817), and "Old Pat, the Independent Beggar, " with several other canvases, including a self-portrait and a portrait of his second wife, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the portrait of Mrs. William Steele, in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo. ; the likeness of Peter Remsen owned by the New York Historical Society; several portraits of former mayors of New York in the City Hall; the portrait of President James Madison in the possession of the Century Association, New York; and two portraits of John Trumbull. Thomas B. Clarke acquired his portrait of R. G. Livingston de Peyster (1828), a prominent New York merchant, that of Rebecca Sanford Barlow (1810), and a portrait of a lady which has been warmly praised for its freshness of color and admirable modeling. Isham aptly describes the work of Waldo and Jewett as "scores of heads of dignified, benevolent gentlemen, with white hair and white chokers, or of ladies in wonderful caps and shawls" and praises their "quiet and unaggressive" painting for its technical merit. Other critics were not so indulgent; one of them calls Waldo "really a commercial face maker, " who was "competent but never inspired". He died in New York in 1861, at the age of seventy-seven.

Achievements

• He was a painter was one of the thirty founders of the National Academy of Design. His works include portrait of G. W. Parke Custis of Arlington, Va. , in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington; a sketch from life of Gen. Andrew Jackson (1817), and "Old Pat, the Independent Beggar, " with several other canvases, including a self-portrait and a portrait of his second wife.

Works

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Connections

He was married at Liverpool or Chester on April 8, 1808, to Josephine Elza Wood, who died in 1825. After the death of his first wife, Waldo married Deliverance Mapes on May 8, 1826, in New York City.

Father:

Zacheus Waldo

Mother:

Esther (Stevens) Waldo

Spouse:

Josephine Elza Wood

Spouse:

Deliverance Mapes