Robert Spear Dunning ART WANTED

Portrait of Robert Spear Dunning: Photo submitted by Caroline Dunning Percy Marcoux

1829 Brunswick, Maine - 1905 Westport Harbor, Massachusetts. Known for: Lush still life, portrait and landscape painting.

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Robert Spear Dunning was a founder in Massachusetts of the Fall River School*, which emphasized still life paintings. He painted portraits and landscapes, but in 1865, his interest turned to still-life painting, which brought him notice and critical acclaim. His highly realistic or "trompe l'oeil"* paintings usually had one or more prominent large objects such as a silver pitcher with luscious looking fruit on a highly polished table. His early work was dark in color and tone, and later ones were luminous*. Born in 1829 in Brunswick, Maine, Dunning was brought to Fall River, a wealthy mill town, at age five and educated in the public schools. He became an art student of James Roberts, and then followed a well-trodden path to the National... Read full biography

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