William Sydney Mount ( Eng. William Sidney Mount November 26, 1807 , Long Island , Sitautket - November 19, 1868 , Long Island ) - an artist from the United States of America , a supporter of the domestic genre . He also made portraits and landscapes .
| William Sydney Mount | |
|---|---|
| English William Sidney Mount | |
| Date of Birth | November 26, 1807 |
| Place of Birth | Long Island , Sitautket |
| Date of death | November 19, 1868 (60 years) |
| Place of death | Long Island |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Genre | landscape , portrait , genre |
| Study | National Academy of Design , New York |
| Style | realism |
Biography
Born in the town of Sitautket on Long Island. Parents - Thomas Shepard Mount and Julia Ann Hawkins. The family had a brother, Henry Mount, also an artist. Under the influence of his brother, he chose the career of an artist and dreamed of becoming an artist of historical genre and portraits.
Art education in New York, at the National Academy of Design, which was founded in 1825 . Not long worked as a portrait painter in New York.
Subsequently, he returned to his homeland, where he focused on observing the life of the provincials of Long Island. Lived and worked on the island until the end of life. On the artistic style of the artist influenced everyday paintings by English artists.
But the reality of the Americans was different from the life of the British, which was really recreated in the painting of William Sydney Mount (“The Dancer in the Bar”, 1835 , “Fishery on the Island of Long Island”, 1845 ). The pictures of the Mount are almost idyllic, devoid of dramas and tragic sides . Only sometimes he unwittingly fixes the social disengagement between the world of whites and the world of African Americans, where the latter always appear as servants or farm laborers (“The indecisive power of music”, 1847 ). The artist is considered the founder of the everyday genre in American painting.
Mount was in poor health. Died November 19, 1868 . His house and studio turned into a museum.
Gallery of Selected Works
“Playing the Goose”, 1837
Mrs. Eliza Spinola, 1853
"At the Well", 1848
Cider Production, 1841
The Hunting Trap, 1844
"The Highest Achievement of the Artist", 1838 , Academy of Fine Arts of Pennsylvania
The Banjo Game, 1856
Sources and links
- Thomas W. Gaethgens: Bilder aus der Neuen Welt. Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts Prestel-Verlag 1988; S. 312. ISBN 3-7913-0879-3
- Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
- The exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum is fully available in PDF format.