1822 Boston, Massachusetts - 1898 Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, portrait, genre, sketches.
A painter, sketch artist, William Newton Bartholomew was born in Boston, MA on Feb. 13, 1822. Bartholomew was a self-taught artist who accompanied a daguerreotyping expedition to California during...
Read full biography A painter, sketch artist, William Newton Bartholomew was born in Boston, MA on Feb. 13, 1822. Bartholomew was a self-taught artist who accompanied a daguerreotyping expedition to California during 1850-51. He made hundreds of daguerreotypes of California and its mining towns, and after returning to...
Read full biography A painter, sketch artist, William Newton Bartholomew was born in Boston, MA on Feb. 13, 1822. Bartholomew was a self-taught artist who accompanied a daguerreotyping expedition to California during 1850-51. He made hundreds of daguerreotypes of California and its mining towns, and after returning to Boston, painted a huge panorama made from them, which he exhibited in Boston and other eastern cities. He taught drawing in the public schools of Boston from 1852-71 and wrote drawing books. He died...
Read full biography A painter, sketch artist, William Newton Bartholomew was born in Boston, MA on Feb. 13, 1822. Bartholomew was a self-taught artist who accompanied a daguerreotyping expedition to California during 1850-51. He made hundreds of daguerreotypes of California and its mining towns, and after returning to Boston, painted a huge panorama made from them, which he exhibited in Boston and other eastern cities. He taught drawing in the public schools of Boston from 1852-71 and wrote drawing books. He died in Newton Center, MA in 1898. Exh: Boston Atheneum, 1861; Boston Art Club, 1889-98; PAFA, 1891, 1892. In: NY Historical Society. Sam; Ben; G&W; CP. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940". Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in
A painter, sketch artist, William Newton Bartholomew was born in Boston, MA on Feb. 13, 1822. Bartholomew was a self-taught artist who accompanied a daguerreotyping expedition to California during 1850-51. He made hundreds of daguerreotypes of California and its mining towns, and after returning to Boston, painted a huge panorama made from them, which he exhibited in Boston and other eastern cities. He taught drawing in the public schools of Boston from 1852-71 and wrote drawing books. He died in Newton Center, MA in 1898. Exh: Boston Atheneum, 1861; Boston Art Club, 1889-98; PAFA, 1891, 1892. In: NY Historical Society. Sam; Ben; G&W; CP. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940". Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here.