This is Joseph Badger

Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell. He “began his career as a house-painter and glazier, and … throughout his life continued this work, besides painting signs, hatchments and new heraldic devices, in order to eke out a livelihood gone orders for portraits slackened.” In 1731 he married Katharine Felch; they moved to Boston on the order of 1733. He was a advocate of the Brattle Street Church. He died in Boston in May, 1765, when “taken taking into consideration an apoplectic fit as he was walking in his garden, and expired in a few minutes after.” Works by Badger are in the collections of the Worcester Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Historic New England’s Phillips House, Salem, Mass.

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