Artist

Moses B. Russell

born Woodstock, NH ca. 1810-died 1884
Also known as
  • M. B. Russell
Born
Woodstock, New Hampshire, United States
Active in
  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • New York, New York, United States
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Census reports give the birthplace of Moses B. Russell as either New Hampshire or Massachusetts. Russell worked in Boston between 1831 and 1853, and after his wife's death, spent almost a decade in Italy. He returned to Boston in 1863, and worked there, and in New York and Philadelphia for the rest of his life. His wife, Clarissa, was also a miniaturist, and their son, Aelbert Cuyp Russell, named after a seventeenth-century Dutch painter, was an engraver and illustrator.