William Verstille was an American artist who worked in Boston

Boston

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, Philadelphia and New York. He specialized in portraits

Portrait painting

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even inanimate objects can be chosen as the subject for a portrait...

. Examples of his artwork reside in the collections of the Harvard Art Museum, Massachusetts Historical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, New York Historical Society, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian, and Yale University.

Further reading

• Accounts of William Verstille. Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 25, Jan. 1960