Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765),

• Was an American portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.
• He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell.
• 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.