1512491207William Matthew Prior18061873WilliamPriorWilliam Matthew Prior was a prolific and well-known portrait painter who worked primarily in Maine, Boston, and Baltimore from the 1820s through the 1860s. He was a pragmatist who responded to consumer markets by offering several styles of portraiture at different prices. Less familiar are the landscapes that the artist produced for a short time in East Boston, and in Baltimore, where he resided briefly during the 1850s. Such “fancy pieces” reflected the taste for the sublime in landscapes, and were almost certainly based upon prints or academic paintings.(1806–1873)BathBostonBathBostonBathBostonWilliam Matthew Prior