Daughter of Jonas and Lucy (Stearns) White, wife of Levi Thaxter (parents of Levi Lincoln Thaxter who married Celia Laighton), born February 20, 1781. In 1836, William Page was elected a National Academician, and he was president of the National Academy from 1871 until 1873. About 1844 he moved to Boston, but in 1847 he returned to New York for a stay of two years. Although extravagantly praised as an artist from the 1830s into the 1860s, Page's reputation suffered in later life because he changed his style so frequently and, more particularly, because technical characteristics of his painting method soon caused much of his work to darken excessively. He wrote A New Geometrical Method of Measuring the Human Figure (1860), and invented and patented various improvements in boats and guns.
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