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 other heraldic devices, in order to eke out a livelihood when orders for portraits slackened." In 1731 he married Katharine Felch; they moved to Boston around 1733. He was a member of the Brattle Street Church. He died in Boston in May, 1765, when "taken with 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.

John Haskins, 1759 (Brooklyn Museum)

Mrs. John Haskins (née Hannah Upham), 1759 (Brooklyn Museum)

Portrait of Elizabeth Storer, ca. 1746 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Portrait of Cornelius Waldo, 1750 (Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts)

Portrait of Elizabeth Campbell, ca. 1750 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Portrait of George Whitefield, ca. 1750s, attributed to Badger (Harvard University)

Detail of portrait of Jonathan Edwards (Yale University)

Portrait of John Larrabee, ca. 1750 (Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts)

Portrait of William Foye, Jr., ca. 1750 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Portrait of Thomas Dawes, ca. 1764

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