Nathaniel
[middle name?]
Currier
Born March 27, 1813
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Son of
[father?] and
[mother?]
[brothers or sisters?]
Husband of
Eliza West
(Married in
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Father of
Edward Currier [add child]
Died November 20, 1888
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About Nathaniel Currier
Nate Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1813. His parents were Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. His father died when he was young and he and his brother went to work trying to support the family. When he was fifteen, he was apprenticed with a Boston printing company.
Nathaniel married his first wife Miss Eliza West and had one son. Eliza passed away in 1847. He then married Lura Ormsbee.
(Does anyone know if there is a connection between Eliza West Farnsworth and the Farnsworth Art Museum?)
Soon after his remarriage, Lura gave birth to Currier's second child, but the child died before reaching his teens. Laura passed away from grief only months after.
Eventually Currier would start his own business after the firm that employed him folded and he was left with a few sparse lithographic tools at his disposal. He set up shop and specialized in lithographic prints.
In 1850, James Ives joined the business and when they put their skills
together they were very successful. Continuing to produce landscapes and prints that portrayed Victorian scenes proved to have a large audience. They are best known for Christmas scenes showing winery landscapes. In addition Currier and Ives branched out into graphic characterizations of current events, political happenings and more.
Mr. Currier had suffered so many losses in his short life, and often his prints would often reflect this, in a disconsolate scene of a family mourning, or memorial prints that reflected the artist ability to feel the families' pain on a personal level.
Together, Currier and Ives produced about 7,500 images. They are most famous in modern times for those wintry Victorian scenes of Christmas past.
Currier retired from his firm in 1880, and turned the business over to his son Edward. Over the years millions of prints have sold and the scenes are instantly recognizable, as is the term "like a scene from Currier and Ives."
Nathaniel died on November 20, 1888.
(If anyone can find information on any of the siblings of Nathaniel Currier, please add them. Especially Charles Jacob Currier this part of the puzzle seems to lead in lots of interesting directions. Your input is appreciated)
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