thumb|right|Nutting's 17th century Brewster Chair
Wallace Nutting (November 17, 1861 – July 19, 1941) was an American minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his landscape photos of New England. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker, antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style.
Early life
He was born in Rock Bottom, Massachusetts (a village straddling Stow and Hudson), on Sunday, November 17, 1861, the second child of Albion and Elizabeth Nutting. His father was killed in the Civil War.
Education and personal life
Wallace Nutting graduated from high school in Augusta, Maine. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. Nutting earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Whitman College in 1893.
On June 5, 1888 he married Mariet Griswold in Buckland, Massachusetts. They had no children. and Fryeburg, Maine,
Work
Photography
It was on these bicycle rides in the countryside that Nutting started taking photographs.