Erastus Salisbury Field (Leverett, Massachusetts, May 19, 1805 - Leverett, June 28, 1900) was an American painter. His career as an itinerant portrait painter began in 1826, most of his commissions coming through a network of family associations in western Massachusetts and Connecticut. From 1841 he lived mainly in New York, where he expanded his subject-matter to include landscapes and American history pictures. There he presumably studied photography, for on his return to Massachusetts he advertised himself as a daguerreotypist. Field retired in 1888.[Oil on canvas, 88.26 x 116.52 cm]
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