Darius Cobb
Nineteenth-century Boston painter of portraits, landscapes and religious and historical scenes.
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Darius Cobb was a portrait and landscape painter, poet, singer and lecturer, born in 1834 in the old Ralph Waldo Emerson house in Malden, Massachusetts.[1] Reverend Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale Waite Cobb were the parents of the twin brothers Darius and Cyrus.[2]
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Life and work
During a double wedding ceremony on the first day of January 1866, the twin brothers wed two sisters; their father officiated, with Cyrus marrying Emma Lillie and Darius marrying Laura Marie Lillie.[3] The household of Darius and his wife included seven offspring: three sons named Stanwood, Percival Bartlett, and Frederick Walter, plus four daughters called Lillie Alden, Cora Stanwood, Estelle Marcy, and Edith Harriet.[3] Darius Cobb gained recognition primarily for his landscape and portrait works, yet his religious-themed paintings ultimately brought him greater fame.[4] At age 83, in 1917, Darius Cobb finished a painting he had labored on for 34 years.[4]
That painting was lost to a fire occurring a few years after Cobb's death.[4]
What the cited sources add
The Makers of the Mold account states that Darius was a portrait and landscape painter, poet, singer and lecturer.[1] According to the same source, his portrait of Phillips Brooks, Governor John A. Andrew, and Rufus Choate were among his works.[1] The Town Crier of June 22, 1906, reported that Darius Cobb presented a life-sized work to the Ralph Waldo Emerson school.[1] The Art of the Print account describes Cyrus Cobb's original etching "Old House on Parer Street, Boston" as printed on hand-made, Japon paper in 1881.[5]
The same source notes that Cyrus Cobb studied art in Boston under John A. Jackson.[5] According to The Makers of the Mold, 10,000 postal cards featuring Cobb's painting The Last Comrade's Final Tribute were distributed across the country.[1]
References
- The Makers of the Mold, by Kenneth W. Newcomb, 1900, Page 139. facts only, no text reused. hemlockgorge.org
- Wikipedia, "Darius Cobb" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Makers of the Mold, by Kenneth W. Newcomb, 1996; The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1907, Page 261 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Darius Cobb" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Makers of the Mold, by Kenneth W. Newcomb, 1996; "Cobb, Daruis", Marquis Who's Who, 1900, Page 139 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Darius Cobb" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Makers of the Mold, by Kenneth W. Newcomb, 1900, Page 139 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- - retrieved from www.artoftheprint.com. facts only, no text reused. artoftheprint.com
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