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John Williamson BIOGRAPHY
1826 Glasgow, Scotland - 1885 Glenwood-on-the-Hudson, New York. Known for: Landscape-water-shore, still life.
Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn. From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of... Read full biography
Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn. From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of Design antique class, the life class from 1850 to 1851 and the antique class from 1854 to 1855. In the... Read full biography
Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn. From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of Design antique class, the life class from 1850 to 1851 and the antique class from 1854 to 1855. In the late 19th century, he became known for his landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. Williamson began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1850, mostly landscapes but also a few genre... Read full biography
Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn. From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of Design antique class, the life class from 1850 to 1851 and the antique class from 1854 to 1855. In the late 19th century, he became known for his landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. Williamson began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1850, mostly landscapes but also a few genre paintings and also entered some still life. However, most of his paintings were landscapes, including along the Hudson River, Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Berkshires and into Connecticut. He, like many of his colleagues, was trying to raise... Read full biography
Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn. From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of Design antique class, the life class from 1850 to 1851 and the antique class from 1854 to 1855. In the late 19th century, he became known for his landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. Williamson began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1850, mostly landscapes but also a few genre paintings and also entered some still life. However, most of his paintings were landscapes, including along the Hudson River, Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Berkshires and into Connecticut. He, like many of his colleagues, was trying to raise public perception about landscape painting. In 1861, he was elected an Associate Member of the Academy. He also exh... Read full biography
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Born at Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland, John Williamson emigrated to America as a child (1831). He spent most of his life in Brooklyn.
From 1844 to 1847, he attended the National Academy of Design antique class, the life class from 1850 to 1851 and the antique class from 1854 to 1855.
In the late 19th century, he became known for his landscapes of the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut.
Williamson began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1850, mostly landscapes but also a few genre paintings and also entered some still life. However, most of his paintings were landscapes, including along the Hudson River, Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains, Berkshires and into Connecticut.
He, like many of his colleagues, was trying to raise public perception about landscape painting.
In 1861, he was elected an Associate Member of the Academy. He also exhibited with the Brooklyn Art Association, American Art Union, and Leeds Art Galleries in New York. In the early 1860s he also completed a few still life featuring lilacs, morning glories, cherries, and raspberries.
He died in Glenwood-on-the-Hudson in 1885.
Source:
Peter Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
David Dearinger, Paintings and Scultpture in the National Academy of Design, Voluime One, 1826-1925.Biography from Questroyal Fine Art, LLC
John Williamson was a versatile artist who created still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes during the heyday of the Hudson River School. Born in Scotland, Williamson came to the United States with his family in 1831. He spent most of his life in Brooklyn, New York, studying art at the Brooklyn Institute and helping to found the Brooklyn Art Association.
Williamson was particularly drawn to mountain scenery and made frequent painting trips to the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, as well as the Berkshire Mountains, White Mountains, and Green Mountains of New England. His intimate, poetic views drew from the atmospheric style of the Luminists and bear comparison to the works of John Frederick Kensett and Sanford Robinson Gifford.
In the mid-nineteenth century, his vivid depictions of nature earned a great deal of recognition, and Williamson was named an Associate at the National Academy of Design in 1861. He exhibited there regularly, and featured his paintings at the American Art-Union, the Utica Art Association, and in galleries throughout Boston and Washington. His work is now in The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, and the Maier Museum of Art, among other prominent institutions.