Abraham Guilielmus Dominey Tuthill (1776-1843)

• Was an American painter.
• Born at Oyster Ponds on the North Fork of Suffolk County in 1777.
• At the start of his career in his early twenties, Tuthill did not have access to formal training.
• His early portraits, including Buell’s and one of Joanna Conklin Gardiner (1745–1809), ultimately brought Tuthill to the attention of Colonel Sylvester Dering of Shelter Island, who sponsored Tuthill’s professional artistic training.
• Tuthill traveled from New York City to London, where he spent the next eight years studying and improving his painting skills.
• By 1811, he had returned to the United States and established a studio on Chatham Street in New York City, where he encountered American art critic William Dunlap.
• By traveling to more rural areas such as upstate New York, Michigan, Vermont, and Ohio—where artists were scarce and demand for portraits was high—Tuthill made a steady living well into the 1830s.
• He died in 1843 in Montpelier, Vermont.  

• Examples of Tuthill’s work are scattered throughout museum collections in the Northeast and Midwest.

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