Darius Cobb

Title:: Darius Cobb
Description:: Portrait, man head and shouldeers
Name on Item:: Davis & Co. [photographer]
Date:: [ca. 1865]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Ambrotypes
Portrait photographs
Location:: Historic Newton
The Archives at the Jackson Homestead and Museum
Box 6 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Historic Newton Early Photograph Collection
Subjects:: Painters (Artists)
Sculptors
Cobb, Darius, 1834-1919
Cobb Family
Waite Family
Lillie Family
Codman Family
Places:: Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Newton
Extent:: 1 photograph; 1/9 plate
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Notes:: Darius Cobb was the son of Rev. Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale Waite, he had a twin brother Cyrus. He married Laura Maria Lillie, daughter of Thomas Edes Lillie and Harriet M. Codman. He was a noted portrait and landscape painter, as well as musician, singer, poet, lecturer, lithographer, and art critic. Portraits of note include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wilson, the Vice-President to Ulysses S. Grant, and Senator Charles Sumner. Together with his brother he produced the Cambridge Soldiers Monument and published a book The Veteran of the Grand Army, based on their experiences in the Civil War while serving in the Massachusetts 44th Infantry Regiment. Cyrus' wife was Emma Lillie, Laura's sister, and the four were married in a double ceremony by Rev. Sylvanus Cobb.
Label on back of image: Davis & Co., corner Washington & Winter, Boston, MA.
In pencil: F D. Cobb 236; D. Cobb 1865 - possibly different hand writing.
Preferred Citation:: Historic Newton Archives at the Jackson Homestead and Museum
Identifier:: 100.6.15