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Canadian-American painter
Wyatt Eaton
Self portrait of Wyatt Eaton
BornCharles Wyatt Eaton
(1849-05-06)May 6, 1849
Philipsburg, Canada East
DiedJune 7, 1896(1896-06-07) (aged 47)
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
EducationNational Academy of Design, New York City
Known forPainter

Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896) was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.

Biography

Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada, Eaton was a student of the National Academy of Design, New York, studying with Samuel Colman, Daniel Huntington and others. In 1872, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme. During this time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-François Millet at Barbizon, and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage to believe that his art should focus on rural life.

After his return to the United States in 1876, he painted a series of portraits of American poets for the Century magazine which were engraved by Timothy Cole (Eaton`s portrait of him is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario). He became a teacher in the Cooper Institute, and opened a studio in New York City but returned to Montreal often to paint portraits. In 1880, he travelled to France and Italy. He became one of the founders of the American Art Association, later the Society of American Artists, of which he was the first secretary. He was also a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal (1867). Eaton died from tuberculosis at Newport, Rhode Island on June 7, 1896.

Works

The Artist in His Studio (1873), the National Academy of Design

Portraits of Wyatt Eaton

Notes

  1. ^ Bradfield, Helen (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070925046. OCLC 118037. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  2. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  3. 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. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  4. Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
  5. ^ Eaton, Wyatt. "Collection". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Archived from the original on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. "A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery". Retrieved 2022-06-02.

References

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, American Painters of Yesterday and Today, 1919, Priv. print in New York. Chapter: Figure Pictures by Wyatt Eaton: online

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