Joseph Oriel Eaton, an American painter of portraits and figure subjects, both in oil and in water-colours, was born in 1829.

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Joseph Oriel Eaton
Portrait of Herman Melville, 1870

His most famous work is his portrait of Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

He died at Yonkers on the Hudson in 1875.

Personal life

He was married to Emmaline (Emma) Goodwin, great-granddaughter of John Adams, and granddaughter of John Quincy Adams.[1][2] The Eatons had five children:

• Son, Frank[2]
• Son, William[2]
• Daughter, Mary Nelson (c. 1869 – 1948), married Frank Howard Nelson on June 6, 1907, in Montclair, New Jersey.[2][3][4][5][6]
• Daughter, Margaret, married to Swedish Count Henning Gustave Taube,[1][2] who was a co-founder of Eaton Corporation and brother of Swedish Prime Minister Arvid Taube.[7]
• Son, Harrison, but later known as Joseph Oriel Eaton II, born 1873 and a co-founder of Eaton Corporation[2]

A granddaughter (or possibly step-granddaughter) named Margaret Comacho was married to John Stoye on November 6, 1911.[8]

Works

Among his exhibited works were:

• Landscape: View on the Hudson. 1868.
• Multiple portraits of John Means of Kentucky. 1868
• Greek Water-Carrier. 1872.
• Lady Godiva. 1874.
• Looking through the Kaleidoscope. 1875.
• His own Portrait. 1875. (National Academy of Design)
• A portrait of daughter Mary at age 4 (Cincinatti Art Museum). c. 1874[9][10]

Eaton was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician in 1866.

References

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eaton, Joseph O.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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