Wyatt Eaton
Wyatt Eaton | |
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 Self portrait ofWyatt Eaton | |
| Born | Charles Wyatt Eaton May 6, 1849 Philipsburg,Canada East |
| Died | June 7, 1896(aged 47) Newport, Rhode Island,United States |
| Education | National Academy of Design,New York City |
| Known for | Painter |
Wyatt Eaton,baptisedCharles Wyatt Eaton,(May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896)[1]was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of theSociety of American Artists.
Biography
[edit]Born in Philipsburg,Quebec,Lower Canada,Eaton was a student of theNational Academy of Design,New York,studying withSamuel Colman,Daniel Huntingtonand others.[1]In 1872, he moved toParisand studied at theÉcole des Beaux-ArtsunderJean-Léon Gérôme.[2]During this time, he made the acquaintance ofJean-François MilletatBarbizon,[3]and was also influenced by his friendJules Bastien-Lepage[2][1]to believe that his art should focus on rural life.
After his return to theUnited Statesin 1876, he painted a series of portraits of American poets for theCenturymagazine which were engraved by Timothy Cole (Eaton`s portrait of him is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario).[1]He became a teacher in theCooper Institute,and opened a studio inNew York Citybut returned to Montreal often to paint portraits.[1]In 1880, he travelled to France and Italy.[1]He became one of the founders of the American Art Association, later theSociety of American Artists,of which he was the first secretary.[2]He was also a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal (1867).[1]Eaton died fromtuberculosisatNewport, Rhode Islandon June 7, 1896.[4]
Works
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- 1868-Study of a Classical Bust,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1869-Study after the Antique,c. 1869, oil on paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-Ann Letta Stanton Baker,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-Arthur Henry Gilmour,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-Farmer's Boy
- 1870-John Baker,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-John Carpenter Baker,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-Mary Jane Baker Gilmour,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- 1870-Lillian Krans,oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa[5]
- 1870-Hiram Krans,oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa[5]
- 1873-Landscape Sketch,oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard –National Gallery of Canada
- 1873-Monsieur Coclèze,c. 1873,National Gallery of Canada
- 1873-Portrait of a Man,National Gallery of Canada
- 1875-Reverie,view
- 1876-Harvesters at Rest
- 1877-Haystacks at Barbizon,etching in brown on cream laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1877-Laure,etching on cream wove paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1877-Trees in the Forest of Fontainebleau,etching in brown on cream laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1879-Boy Whittling
- 1879-Portrait ofWilliam Cullen Bryant,oil on canvas,Brooklyn Museum
- 1880-Grandmother and Child
- 1881-Portrait of a Lady(Mrs. W.W. Ladd Jr.?), charcoal on buff laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1884-The Shepherdess,oil on canvas, Owens Art Gallery,Mount Allison University[6]
- 1884-The Gleaner,pastel on buff laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
- 1885-Timothy Cole,oil on canvas,[1]
- 1888-Ariadne,oil on canvas,Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 1889-William T. Evans,oil on canvas,Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 1894-Sir William Van Horne,oil on canvas,National Gallery of Canada
- Lassitude,view
Portraits of Wyatt Eaton
[edit]- Portrait of Wyatt Eaton,c. 1878, J. Alden Weir, oil on canvasSmithsonian American Art Museum
- Self-portrait, 1879Canadian gallery of Art
Notes
[edit]- ^abcdefghBradfield, Helen (1970).Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection.Toronto: McGraw Hill.ISBN0070925046.OCLC118037.Retrieved2021-03-31.
- ^abcChisholm 1911.
- ^Foss, Brian (2015)."Barbizon Aesthetics in Canadian Landscape Painting". Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven.Ian M. Thom (ed.). Vancouver and London, Eng.: Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing. pp. 42ff.Retrieved2021-05-20.
- ^Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
- ^abEaton, Wyatt."Collection".rmg.minisisinc.com.Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Archived fromthe originalon 2021-11-27.Retrieved2021-03-09.
- ^"A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery".Retrieved2022-06-02.
References
[edit]- Sherman, Frederic Fairchild,American Painters of Yesterday and Today,1919, Priv. print in New York. Chapter: Figure Pictures by Wyatt Eaton:online
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Eaton, Wyatt".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 839.
External links
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- Wyatt Eatonat Artcyclopedia.com
- Wyatt Eatonat AskArt.com
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- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 19th-century Canadian painters
- Canadian male painters
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- 1849 births
- 1896 deaths
- Tuberculosis deaths in Rhode Island
- Canadian alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- American expatriates in France
- 19th-century American male artists
- 19th-century Canadian male artists