American, 19th century, male.
Born 1835, in New York; died 31 March 1886, in New York.
Painter. Landscapes, seascapes.
Hudson River School.
Brooklyn, NY
New York, 20 Feb 1969: Lakeside, USD 1,600
New York, 10 May 1974: Riverscape (1873) ...
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Silva, Francis Augustus
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Wall, William Guy
Irish, 19th century, male.
Active 1826-1862.
Born 1792, in Dublin; died after 1862, probably in Dublin.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman. Landscapes, waterscapes.
Hudson River School.
William Guy Wall was born in Ireland, but went to New York in 1812. He is most famous for his watercolour views of the Hudson River valley, for example ...
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Weir, Robert Walter
American, 19th century, male.
Born 18 June 1803, in New Rochelle; died 1889, in New York.
Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, animals, landscapes.
Hudson River School.
Robert Walter Weir was a pupil of J.W. Jarvis and then of Benvenuti in Florence, and he also went to Rome. On his return to New York he was made a member of the National Academy of Design, and he taught for over 40 years at West Point Military Academy, where his pupils included Whistler....
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Whittredge, Thomas Worthington
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 May 1820, in Springfield (Ohio); died 25 February 1910, in Summit (New Jersey).
Painter, draughtsman. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, mountainscapes, flowers, animals.
Hudson River School.
Thomas Worthington Whittredge trained at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, and subsequently in Düsseldorf and Italy (mostly Rome). He settled in New York in the early 1860s, and was active as a landscape painter and leading member of the Hudson River School. He accompanied three military expeditions to the Rocky Mountains and New Mexico, to observe the landscapes, and the culture of the local Native American tribes. He initially supported himself by producing daguerreotypes and portraits, and sign-painting, before devoting himself to depicting the American landscape, with particular attention to light effects. In the last ten years of his life, he produced an autobiography which was first published in ...
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Wyant, Alexander Helwig
American, 19th century, male.
Born 11 January 1836, in Port Washington; died 29 November 1892, in New York.
Painter. Genre scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, mountainscapes.
Hudson River School.
Alexander Helwig Wyant's work was shown in the exhibitions of the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, and he received an Honourable Mention at the 1889 Universal Exhibition....
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