# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-henshaw-bascom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:33:57.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-henshaw-bascom"
name: "Ruth Henshaw Bascom"
slug: "ruth-henshaw-bascom"
description: "Ruth Henshaw Bascom, also known as Aunt Ruth, was an American folk artist who produced over 1,400 portraits. She was the daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan of Leicester, Massachusetts, and a schoolteacher from 1791 to 1801. Bascom married first, at about 32 years of age, to Dr. Asa Miles, but he died a year or more after their marriage. She married a second time for about 35 years to Reverend Ezekial Lysander Bascom. Bascom didn't give birth to children of her own, but she had a stepson from her first marriage, stepdaughter from her second marriage, and a niece and nephew that she raised. She documented the daily activities of her life in diaries beginning at the age of 17, which included records of the portraits that she made."
tagline: "Folk artist (1772–1848)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Henshaw_Bascom%2C_Self-portrait%2C_drawing%2C_1829%2C_Five_Colleges_and_Historic_Deerfield_Museum_Consortium.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1772-12-15"
deathDate: "1848-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.1
  momentum:             1.587301587301587
  historical:           4.805256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روث هينشاو باسكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Henshaw_Bascom"
    title: "Ruth Henshaw Bascom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Henshaw_Bascom"
    title: "Ruth Henshaw Bascom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%95_%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "רות הנשו בסקום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82"
    title: "Бэском, Рут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump