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Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889) was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. [1] Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy.
This painting was placed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda at Washington, D.C. in December 1843. Known as The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, the 12 by 18 feet (3.7 by 5.5 m) painting is a scene on board Speedwell while harboured in Delfshaven, Holland. The historical event dramatized took place on 22 July 1620. [7]
The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in 1991, featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from 1820 to 1920 which depicted images and iconography of ...
The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Constantino Brumidi, [1] [2] Vinnie Ream and Allyn Cox.
He became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1611 and subsequently became its dean in 1620. His sons Cornelis, Abraham , and Isaac followed in his footsteps. He was known as a painter of river and canal pieces, coastal landscapes , fish-markets, processions, and genre scenes.
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
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Washington University in St. Louis Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri Mending the Net: Oil on canvas 1881 32.1 x 45.1 in 81.6 x 114.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art The Sculptor - Portrait of William R. O'Donovan: Oil on canvas ca.1891-92 Lost, probably destroyed Portrait of Amelia Van Buren: Oil on canvas c.1891 44.8 x 31.8 in 114 x 81 cm