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William Starkweather BIOGRAPHY
1879 Edinburgh, Scotland - 1969 New Haven, Connecticut. Known for: Marine, landscape, portrait and genre painting.
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York City, with Kenyon... Read full biography
An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut. Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels. He also studied at the Art Students League in New York City, with Kenyon Cox, J. Carroll Beckwith and John Henry Twachtman. In 1904, he went to Spain and found Sorolla who influenced Starkweather's... Read full biography
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An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut.
Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of Joaquin Sorolla at the Universal Exposition. In 1901, he returned to the United States and taught at the St. George's School for Boys in New York and did illustrations for popular novels.
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