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Cephas Thompson (July 1 1775 – November 6 1856) was a successful self-taught early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States who was born died and lived most of his life in Middleborough Massachusetts.Thompson’s father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on March 18 1802. Their son Cephas Giovanni Thompson became a painter of portraits and landscape in his own right and a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
