Fun Fact: I say “Cephas Thompson” several times during this podcast, mostly because it’s fun to say.
He wasn’t a formally-trained painter, but he had a good eye and some natural talent, and during his career he painted over 600 portraits, with roughly a fourth of those made entirely in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Even after retiring from the itinerant artist life, he continued to work in Middleborough, Massachusetts until his death.