Joseph whiting stock biography of michael jordan

The prolific Joseph Whiting Stock painted portraits, anatomical illustrations, miniatures, landscapes, and genre scenes, or images of everyday life, in the somewhat flat, stiff style associated with so-called folk art, which had its heyday in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Stock was one of twelve children born to a modest family in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Joseph whiting stock biography of michael jordan

At the age of eleven, he was permanently paralyzed from the waist down by an accident, and he took up painting in the hope of one day supporting himself as a maker of portraits. He received a few lessons in painting from Franklin White (dates unknown), a pupil of the celebrated portraitist Chester Harding (1792–1866), but was otherwise self-taught.

Stock was already receiving portrait commissions from local residents when his new doctor devised a wheelchair that gave him considerable mobility and independence.

In 1836, Stock began his almost two-decades-long career as