Frederick Mayhew

Frederick Mayhew painted in southeastern Massachusetts and lived in Martha's Vineyard until the 1830s, when he went to Ohio. The deed for his 1824 purchase of twenty acres of farmland in Martha's Vineyard cited his vocation as a "limner." His advertisements placed in a local newspaper, theNew Bedford Mercury,identify him also as a painter and a miniaturist.Lynda Roscoe HartiganMade with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art(Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990)