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William Wilson Corcoran (December 27, 1798 – February 24, 1888) was an American banker, philanthropist, and art collector. [1] He founded the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [ 2 ] Early life and education
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C., that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States. It held an important ...
English: Portrait of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888) Object type: painting : Genre: portrait : Depicted people: William Wilson Corcoran : Date: 19 th century
Corcoran Gallery in the late 19th century, showing the lost sculpture niches and the gallery's historic first floor windows. The Renwick Gallery building was originally built to be Washington, D.C.'s first art museum and to house William Wilson Corcoran's collection of American and European art.
William Wilson Corcoran founded the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1869. Construction had begun at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in 1859, but shortly after the exterior work was completed, the Quartermaster General's corps of the Union Army occupied the building, setting up offices for the duration of the Civil War.
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews (June 11, 1835 – March 15, 1915), an American painter known primarily as a portraitist, established an art instruction curriculum at the behest of William Wilson Corcoran at his Corcoran School of Art, and served as its director, 1877–1902. He received many commissions to create both original portraits and copies of ...
The National Theatre was founded on December 7, 1835, by William Wilson Corcoran and other prominent citizens who wanted the national capital to have a first-rate theatre. [3] The theatre's initial production was Man of the World. [3] It was purchased in 1844 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe of the B.O. Tayloe House for $13,950. [4]
[6] [7] They were based on the design of vases brought from Paris by William Wilson Corcoran, but it is unclear who the original designer was. [8] According to the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, they may have been designed by Downing or Calvert Vaux. [6]