William Parsons II, of Gloucester, Massachusetts

Washington Blanchard, born Cambridge, MA 1808-died Boston, MA 1855 · ca. 1840

We do not know much about William Parsons II, except that he lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the mid- to late 800s and owned a schooner named William Parsons & Co. This portrait shows Parsons in formal dress and was probably painted when he was around twenty years old.