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1828 New York City - 1917 Lafayette, Indiana. Known for: Landscape, Civil War soldier portraits and genre painting, engraving.
Alexander Lawrie was born in New York City in 1828. As a youth he was apprenticed to an engraver and later studied drawing at the National Academy of Design. From 1850 to 1854 he studied in... Read full biography
Alexander Lawrie was born in New York City in 1828. As a youth he was apprenticed to an engraver and later studied drawing at the National Academy of Design. From 1850 to 1854 he studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There his most notable teacher was Paul Gottlieb... Read full biography
Alexander Lawrie was born in New York City in 1828. As a youth he was apprenticed to an engraver and later studied drawing at the National Academy of Design. From 1850 to 1854 he studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There his most notable teacher was Paul Gottlieb Weber, an influential landscape artist from Germany whose other pupils of this era included Thomas Moran, William S. Haseltine and William Trost Richards. Of all of these students Richards proved to be... Read full biography
Alexander Lawrie was born in New York City in 1828. As a youth he was apprenticed to an engraver and later studied drawing at the National Academy of Design. From 1850 to 1854 he studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There his most notable teacher was Paul Gottlieb Weber, an influential landscape artist from Germany whose other pupils of this era included Thomas Moran, William S. Haseltine and William Trost Richards. Of all of these students Richards proved to be the best friend and traveling companion, and in 1855 the two went abroad to first to Dusseldorf then to Paris. Lawrie then went alone on to Florence, returning to Philadelphia in 1858. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and went abroad... Read full biography
Alexander Lawrie was born in New York City in 1828. As a youth he was apprenticed to an engraver and later studied drawing at the National Academy of Design. From 1850 to 1854 he studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There his most notable teacher was Paul Gottlieb Weber, an influential landscape artist from Germany whose other pupils of this era included Thomas Moran, William S. Haseltine and William Trost Richards. Of all of these students Richards proved to be the best friend and traveling companion, and in 1855 the two went abroad to first to Dusseldorf then to Paris. Lawrie then went alone on to Florence, returning to Philadelphia in 1858. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and went abroad again briefly in 1865. From 1866 to 1876 he lived in New York, where he also maintained a studio. In 1868 he was elected to Associate of... Read full biography
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- Different Views in Hudson River SchAugust 2005O'Toole, Judith HansenAmerican Art Review
- Paintings of the AdirondackJuly 1997Welsh, CarolineThe Magazine Antiques
- Twenty Years of ArtDecember 1996Goley, Mary AnneAmerican Art Review