Wallace Nutting "Dell Dale Rd" Hand Painted Landscape Photograph-22x32" Signed C.1900s

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Wallace Nutting "Dell Dale Rd" Hand Painted Landscape Photograph-22x32" Signed c.1900s

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Wallace Nutting was born in 1861 and died … Read more Wallace Nutting "Dell Dale Rd" Hand Painted Landscape Photograph-22x32" Signed c.1900s

Biography
Wallace Nutting was born in 1861 and died in 1941. He had trained to be a minister and served some prestigious churches. Although a New Englander through and through, he did "go West" as many people did, and ended up for a time as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Seattle. He went from there to Union Congregational in Providence, Rhode Island.
Finding the ministry too stressful, he was advised to find a different occupation. He had been "dabbling" in photography as a means of relaxation even before quitting the pulpit at Union, and so he turned to photography after he resigned.
His platinotypes are primarily of New England scenery and the interiors of old
New England homes with women situated close to the home and hearth. He
hired women to hand tint the photographs, and many of these women posed for him in the pictures as well. See less