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"Edwin Weyburn Goodwin was an itinerant miniature and portrait painter in upstate New York. During his fifteen year career, ca. 1830-1845, he painted approximately 800 portraits. His son, Richard La Barre Goodwin, was a landscape, portrait and still-life painter; best known as a painter of fish and game. Until ca. 1880, Richard La Barre Goodwin, like his father, was an itinerant painter of portraits in upstate New York."

Goodwin is mentioned in 18380803FMS_WHS1. Apparently the talk is that he made Weed look "too stern" in Weed's new portrait.

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Biography: 
"Edwin Weyburn Goodwin was an itinerant miniature and portrait painter in upstate New York. During his fifteen year career, ca. 1830-1845, he painted approximately 800 portraits. His son, Richard La Barre Goodwin, was a landscape, portrait and still-life painter; best known as a painter of fish and game. Until ca. 1880, Richard La Barre Goodwin, like his father, was an itinerant painter of portraits in upstate New York." Goodwin is mentioned in 18380803FMS_WHS1. Apparently the talk is that he made Weed look "too stern" in Weed's new portrait.
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http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edwin-weyburn-and-richard-la-barre-goodwin-papers-8300
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http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edwin-weyburn-and-richard-la-barre-goodwin-papers-8300 \\\\\http://records.ancestry.com/edwin_weyburn_goodwin_records.ashx?pid=1335130