Solon Francis Montecello Badger

Place: Boston

Born: 1873

Death: 1919

Biography:

Solon Francis Montecello Badger (1873-1919) was active/lived in Massachusetts. He is known for Ship portrait and maritime view painting. Badger, Solon F. M. Solon Francis Montecello Badger (1873-1919) was known for many years by the misnomer "Samuel Finley Morse Badger." Badger was born in Boston, and lived in nearby Charlestown with his father S. Badger, also a painter. As a teenager, he lodged with ship portrait painter William P. Stubbs. For a time, Badger was apprenticed to a trunk maker, but after the business moved to the West, he took up ship painting. Badger was largely self-taught as a painter, and he sailed Boston Harbor in a small yacht in order to measure vessels for his paintings, while sometimes worked from blueprints. Badger died from tuberculosis in 1919. Museums with his works include: Maine Maritime Museum Peabody Essex Museum Mystic Seaport National Maritime Museum of Greenwich, England.