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1821 West Hingham, Massachusetts - 1910 West Hingham, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, marine-coastal view.
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts. He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay,... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts. He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay, executed in 1845. He traveled throughout Europe for four years, beginning in 1847. He was... Read full biography
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Keywords (40)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Waterfowl
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
- •Asia, Orient
- •Barbizon, France
- •Boston Before 1900
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Japan
- •Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Venice, Italy
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
- •Robert Weir
Art School
- •German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Marine Before 1900
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts