Bill Stoneham
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William Stoneham is an artist and writer who is notable for painting eBay
's 'haunted painting' The Hands Resist Him, which became an Internet meme
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Bill (William) Stoneham was born in 1947, in Boston
, Massachusetts. He was given up for adoption at birth, spending his first nine months in a Boston orphanage. His adoptive parents gave him the Stoneham name. Little is known about his birth mother, other than the fact that she was a portrait painter and that "Miller" was her married name.
Stoneham is an accomplished artist who has worked in feature film, video game art, and fine art including oil painting, poetry, illustration and writing. His website contains many of his works from over the years. One painting, "The Hands Resist Him", has enjoyed some notoriety since it was auctioned on eBay in 2000. The painting is featured in various books, articles, and other cultural media.
Stoneham lives in Oakland, California
, with his wife and is painting surrealist
canvases, as well as creating digital illustrations for printed publications.
A notable new work is Politic"
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
's 'haunted painting' The Hands Resist Him, which became an Internet meme
Internet meme
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Bill (William) Stoneham was born in 1947, in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts. He was given up for adoption at birth, spending his first nine months in a Boston orphanage. His adoptive parents gave him the Stoneham name. Little is known about his birth mother, other than the fact that she was a portrait painter and that "Miller" was her married name.
Stoneham is an accomplished artist who has worked in feature film, video game art, and fine art including oil painting, poetry, illustration and writing. His website contains many of his works from over the years. One painting, "The Hands Resist Him", has enjoyed some notoriety since it was auctioned on eBay in 2000. The painting is featured in various books, articles, and other cultural media.
Stoneham lives in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
, with his wife and is painting surrealist
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
canvases, as well as creating digital illustrations for printed publications.
A notable new work is Politic"