Gamaliel Waldo Beaman

Gamaliel Waldo Beaman (September 4, 1852 – May 7, 1937) was an American painter active in New England, and best known for his views of New Hampshire's White Mountains.

Beaman was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, and studied art at the Lowell Institute and in 1878 at Paris. As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston, but moved to Northfield, Massachusetts, where he lived atop the mountain behind Northfield village. There he received a commission from evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody. He married Mary Priest Stearns on October 22, 1885, and afterwards traveled west to paint in the Rockies. Mary died shortly after the birth of their second child, and in 1894 Beaman married his second wife, Eileen Marie Sherman of North Adams, Massachusetts. Later in life, he lived in East Princeton, Massachusetts. He is buried in Whitmanville Cemetery, Westminster.

Beaman exhibited at the Boston Art Club in 1877, 1878, and 1880, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1884 and 1885. Today his work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as the Westminster Historical Society Museum, the Forbush Library in Westminster, Massachusetts, and the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, Massachusetts. His files are archived in the Smithsonian Libraries.