Walter M. Brackett

Walter M. Brackett (June 14, 1823 – March 4, 1919), was an American painter and the younger brother of sculptor Edward A. Brackett. Brackett was born in Unity, Maine. He spent most of his professional career in Boston, Massachusetts, exhibiting his pretense at the Boston Athenaeum, the Apollo Association, and the National Academy of Design. He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the in advance 1870s to Kill portraits of the extraction of agreement of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state. He was with a noted painter of fish, and was tasked bearing in mind repainting the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts in 1898.

Brackett died in Boston on March 4, 1919.