William Hart ( born William Hart ; 1823 - 1894 ) is an American landscape painter and animal painter of Scottish descent. Also created etchings . Brother artist James Hart . [6]
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| Genre | landscape |
Biography
Born March 31, 1823 in the Scottish city of Kilmarnock (according to other sources in the city of Paisley ).
In America, his parents, James and Marion Hart, with seven children came from Scotland on a Camillus in February 1930. They lived in the capital of New York - the city of Albany . Together with his brother he became interested in painting, initially studied at the artist-decorator in Albany, then in the city of Troy ), where his first artistic experience was decorating panels with landscapes. Also worked as a portrait painter.
In the mid-1830s, Hart moved to Michigan to sell his work profitably, but failed. In 1848 he exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design . In 1849 he returned to Albany. At the end of the same year he left for Europe to study landscape painting. Until 1852 he worked in Scotland , after which he returned to the United States . In 1853, he moved to New York , where he opened his own studio in 1858. In 1865, Hart was elected president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design .
In 1858, he became a full member of the National Academy of Design, regularly exhibiting there until the mid-1870s. He also participated in the exhibition of the Brooklyn Art Association ( English Brooklyn Art Association ) and in other exhibitions of the country. Hart was a member of the American Watercolor Society and its president from 1870 to 1873.
He died on June 17, 1894 in Mount Vernon, New York, and was buried in the Green Wood City Cemetery. [7] The Albany Institute of History & Art Museum houses over 400 sketches, watercolors, and books that belonged to William Hart.
He was married to Janet Wallace Hart (d. 1894). They had a daughter, Jessie Hart White , whose son Alvin White became a famous American writer.
Proceedings
The artist's works are in private collections, as well as museums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the Smithsonian Museum of American Art , the High Museum of Art in Atlanta .
- Some work
Lake among the hills
Mount madison from the androscoggin river
The rivulet
Notes
- ↑ https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/36216
- ↑ William M. Hart
- ↑ 1 2 William M. Hart - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ RKDartists
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ James M. Hart and William Hart Archived December 24, 2014. (eng.)
- ↑ William Hart