Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
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Museums page for Robert Walter Weir ((1803 - 1889)), known for Genre, portrait, history and landscape painting, teaching. Showing 14 museum collections and exhibitions.
Robert Walter Weir MUSEUMS
1803 New York City - 1889 New York City. Known for: Genre, portrait, history and landscape painting, teaching.
Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction from Robert Cooke, an English heraldic* artist. When he was a teenager, Weir's painting was so... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction from Robert Cooke, an English heraldic* artist. When he was a teenager, Weir's painting was so remarkable that his canvases sold in New York as the work of the Old Masters*. From 1824 to 1827, he studied in Italy and in 1825 he worked with Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Later he moved to Rome, where... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction from Robert Cooke, an English heraldic* artist. When he was a teenager, Weir's painting was so remarkable that his canvases sold in New York as the work of the Old Masters*. From 1824 to 1827, he studied in Italy and in 1825 he worked with Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Later he moved to Rome, where he lived with Horatio Greenough. Returning to New York he set up his own studio. In 1834, he began a 42-year teaching career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and his pupils included Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E Lee, and James Whistler as... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction from Robert Cooke, an English heraldic* artist. When he was a teenager, Weir's painting was so remarkable that his canvases sold in New York as the work of the Old Masters*. From 1824 to 1827, he studied in Italy and in 1825 he worked with Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Later he moved to Rome, where he lived with Horatio Greenough. Returning to New York he set up his own studio. In 1834, he began a 42-year teaching career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and his pupils included Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E Lee, and James Whistler as well as his own sons, John Ferguson and Julian Alden Weir. He painted subjects from the novels of James Fennimore Cooper and Wash... Read full biography
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About Robert Walter Weir: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (14)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum
225 Holliday Street
Baltimore, MD 21202West Point Museum
2110 New South Post Road
West Point, NY 10996Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271