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William Penn Morgan PUBLICATIONS
1826 London, England - 1900 New York City. Known for: Domestic genre, animal, figure.
A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much... Read full biography
A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the "sights and sounds of Paris" than in academic studies, but eventually he... Read full biography
A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the "sights and sounds of Paris" than in academic studies, but eventually he settled into studying the Old Masters* and also studying at the French government school at Le Havre. However, not feeling any great sense of accomplishment and not wanting to return to England as a... Read full biography
A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the "sights and sounds of Paris" than in academic studies, but eventually he settled into studying the Old Masters* and also studying at the French government school at Le Havre. However, not feeling any great sense of accomplishment and not wanting to return to England as a 'failure', he spent the 1840s as a sailor. In 1851, he arrived penniless in Brooklyn, New York City, a place he died in 1900 and where he had had remained for most of the rest of his career. Between 1855 and 1860, he intermittently attended the school of... Read full biography
A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture. However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the "sights and sounds of Paris" than in academic studies, but eventually he settled into studying the Old Masters* and also studying at the French government school at Le Havre. However, not feeling any great sense of accomplishment and not wanting to return to England as a 'failure', he spent the 1840s as a sailor. In 1851, he arrived penniless in Brooklyn, New York City, a place he died in 1900 and where he had had remained for most of the rest of his career. Between 1855 and 1860, he intermittently attended the school of the National Academy of Design* but later confessed to writer Theodore Dreiser that he had done "very little studying" during... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesPaintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004Dearinger, David B.672 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia
1994
(Exhibition catalog)Editors56 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings612 pagesDomestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
1986
(Exhibition catalog)Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard160 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesAmerican Paintings
1981
(Exhibition catalog)Schwarz-Philadelphia23 pagesExhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
1973
(Exhibition catalog)Naylor, Maria1,075 pagesEarly American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 1670-1870
1968Hamilton, Sinclair (Intro)0 pagesAmerican Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966North Carolina Museum of Art118 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesHistory of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954Clark, Eliot296 pagesAmerican Romantic Painting
1944Richardson, Edgar P286 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesHistory of Wood Engraving in America
1882Linton, William J0 pages