Connecticut, Rhode Island. 1841 - 1926
Portrait, genre and landscape painting, teaching
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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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Landing of Henry Hudson, 1609, at Verplanck Point, New York
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Landing of Henry Hudson, 1608 at Verplan
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New York, New Hampshire. 1825 - 1913
Fruit/floral still life, figure and genre painting
New York / Denmark, Germany. 1810 - 1867
Landscape and rural genre painting
New York, Kentucky. 1823 - 1903
Genre, portrait, and figure painting, etching
New York. 1826 - 1885
Landscape-water-shore, still life
New York, California. 1840 - 1921
Hudson River style landscape painting, Indian genre, engraving
Illinois, Ohio. 1837 - 1917
Still life, illustration, landscape
Maryland, District Of Columbia. 1837 - 1920
Landscape and historical painting, illustration
Maryland, District Of Columbia. 1826 - 1888
Fruit still life "portraits", grapes, oysters
New York / France. 1816 - 1882
Seasonal landscape painting, especially winter scenes, teaching
New Jersey, California. 1812 - 1879
Topographic landscape, still-life, birds
New York / France. 1853 - 1932
Mural, illustrator, figure, allegory
New York, Ohio. 1857 - 1903
Figure, genre and mural painting, illustration, lithography
Maine, Massachusetts. 1839 - 1934
Floral and fruit still life painting
New York / Germany. 1833 - 1915
Landscape-river-mountain, engraver
New York, Vermont. 1811 - 1893
Landscape painting, banknote engraving
New York / Italy. 1841 - 1897
Venetian scene painting
New York, Michigan / Netherlands. 1830 - 1903
Romantic landscape, marine, and figure painting
New York, California. 1833 - 1909
Landscape and coastal view painting, graphics
New York, Georgia, Maryland. 1820 - 1900
Southern landscape and still-life painting, travel illustration
District Of Columbia, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts / Europe. 1793 - 1856
Landscape and some marine painting, graphics, illustration
New York. 1828 - 1891
Landscape and coastal view painting
New York, Connecticut / France. 1848 - 1932
Cattle and sheep in landscape painting
Vermont, New York. 1818 - 1892
Landscape, portrait, and battle scene painting
New Jersey, New York, Ohio. 1820 - 1910
Landscape, portrait, marine, and genre painting
New York / Ireland. 1837 - 1928
Landscape, rural life, still-life and mural painting
New York, California / France. 1826 - 1892
Romantic landscape and portrait painting, teaching
New York / Italy. 1836 - 1923
Allegory, landscape, figure and fantasy painting
New York, Ohio. 1836 - 1892
Tonalist landscape and genre painting
New York / United Kingdom, England. 1833 - 1905
Historical genre-figure, landscape and marine painting
New York. 1824 - 1863
Landscape, street-farm genre
New York. 1828 - 1901
Bucolic landscape with cattle, genre, and figure painting