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HART, WILLIAM (1823–1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 31 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HART, See also:WILLIAM (1823–1894) , See also:American landscape and See also:cattle painter, was See also:born in See also:Paisley, See also:Scotland, on the 31st of See also:March 1823, and was taken to See also:America in See also:early youth. He was apprenticed to a See also:carriage painter at See also:Albany, New See also:York, and his first efforts in See also:art were in making landscape decorations for the panels of coaches. Subsequently he returned to Scotland, where he studied for three years. He opened a studio in New York in 1853, and was elected an See also:associate of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design in 1857 and an academician in the following See also:year. He was also a member of the American See also:Water See also:Colour Society, and was its See also:president from 1870 to 1873. As one of the See also:group of the See also:Hudson See also:River School he enjoyed considerable popularity, his pictures being in many well-known American collections. He died at See also:Mount See also:Vernon, New York, on the 17th of See also:June 1894. His See also:brother, See also:JAMES MCDOUGAL HART (1828–1901), born in See also:Kilmarnock, Scotland, was also a landscape and cattle painter. He was a See also:pupil of See also:Schirmer in See also:Dusseldorf, and became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1857 and a full member in 1859. He was survived by two daughters, both figure painters, Letitia B. Hart (b. 1867) and See also:Mary See also:Theresa Hart (b.1872).

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