Charles Codman: from limner to landscape painter

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 2002 by Jessica Nicoll

(32.) John Neal, "Our Landscape Painters--Charles Codman," Poriland Illustrated (Portland, 1874), p. 29; and John Neal, "Our Painters-Charles Codman," Northern Monthly vol. 1 (August 1864), p.364.

(33.) Ned, "Our Painters" (seen. 6), p. 345.

(34.) The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874, comp. and ed. Robert F. Perkins Jr. and William J. Gavin (Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 1980), p. 37.

(35.) Review of the Seventh [1832] Exhibitian of the National Academy of Design (published by Traveller and Times, reprint from New-York Tiaveller] (New York, 1833), p.8.

(36.) Baston Athenaeum An Exhibition Inder, p. 37.

(37.) Eastem Argus, December 30, 1828.

(38.) Ibid., March 13, 1832.

(39.) Portland Advertiser, August 15, 1833.

(40.) John Neal, "Painting," Portland Magazine, vol. 1 (July 1835), p. 320.

(41.) The award of the commission is noted in the Maine Library Bulletin, July 1917, p.6, which indicates that the work was painted in 1836. However, the Portland Advertiser for September 30, 1834, reported the first public display of the painting in Codman's painting room in September 1834.

(42.) Codman's obituary in the Portland Tribune, September 21, 1842, identifies "consumption and all its deadly ministering" as the cause of his death.

(43.) Neal, "American Painters," p. 121.

(44.) Purtland Transcript, March 5, 1884.

JESSICA NICOLL is the chief curator and the William E. and Helen E. Thon Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.