Arnot Art Museum
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Elmira, NY 14901
Elmira, NY 14901
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Museums page for Robert Street ((1796 - 1865)), known for Portrait, landscape, history, genre. Showing 10 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1796 Germantown, Pennsylvania - 1865. Known for: Portrait, landscape, history, genre.
A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost. Nothing is known... Read full biography
A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost. Nothing is known of his life before 1815 when he first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy except that he was born... Read full biography
A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost. Nothing is known of his life before 1815 when he first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy except that he was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He continued to exhibit at the Academy in 1817, 1818, and 1822. In 1824 he showed three historical paintings in Washington, D.C., and in the same year he painted a portrait... Read full biography
A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost. Nothing is known of his life before 1815 when he first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy except that he was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He continued to exhibit at the Academy in 1817, 1818, and 1822. In 1824 he showed three historical paintings in Washington, D.C., and in the same year he painted a portrait of Andrew Jackson, which later hung in the White House. In 1834, he painted Joseph Bonaparte, the oldest brother of Napoleon, who was living on an estate in Bordentown, New Jersey. In 1840 a major exhibition of his work was held at the Artists Fund... Read full biography
A highly respected and popular portraitist of his time but largely forgotten today, Robert Street also did historical and Biblical scenes, but many of his paintings have been lost. Nothing is known of his life before 1815 when he first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy except that he was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He continued to exhibit at the Academy in 1817, 1818, and 1822. In 1824 he showed three historical paintings in Washington, D.C., and in the same year he painted a portrait of Andrew Jackson, which later hung in the White House. In 1834, he painted Joseph Bonaparte, the oldest brother of Napoleon, who was living on an estate in Bordentown, New Jersey. In 1840 a major exhibition of his work was held at the Artists Fund Hall in Philadelphia. The show was catalogued and included 172 works by Street and fifty paintings by past artists. He also participated in gro... Read full biography
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About Robert Street: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (10)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115New Jersey State Museum
205 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0530Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102