Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Name
- Charles S. Raleigh
- Also Known as
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Charles Sidney RaleighC. S. Raleigh
- Born
- Gloucester, England
- Died
- Bourne, Massachusetts
- born Gloucester, England 1830-died Bourne, MA 1925
- Active in
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- New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Nationalities
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American
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Charles Sidney Raleigh grew up in Gloucester, England, and ran away to sea when he was only ten years old. After thirty years as a merchant seaman, he married and settled in Massachusetts. He advertised himself as a “house, sign, ornamental, and carriage painter,” but he also painted more than six hundred images of whaling vessels.
