Joseph Oriel Eaton (born 1829) was an American painter of portraits and figure subjects, both in oil and in water-colours. His most famous work is his portrait of Herman Melville, author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
Personal life
He was married to Emmaline (Emma) Goodwin, great-granddaughter of John Adams, and granddaughter of John Quincy Adams.[1][2] The Eatons had five children:
Daughter, Mary Nelson (c. 1869 – 1948), married Frank Howard Nelson on June 6, 1907, in Montclair, New Jersey.[2][3][4][5][6]
Daughter, Margaret, married to Swedish Count Henning Gustave Taube,[1][2] who was a co-founder of Eaton Corporation and brother of Swedish Prime Minister Arvid Taube.[7]
Son, Harrison, but later known as Joseph Oriel Eaton II, born 1873 and a co-founder of Eaton Corporation[2]
A granddaughter (or possibly step-granddaughter) named Margaret Comacho was married to John Stoye on November 6, 1911.[8]
Works
Mother and Children in an Interior
Among his exhibited works were:
Landscape: View on the Hudson. 1868.
Multiple portraits of John Means of Kentucky. 1868
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eaton, Joseph O.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
