English-born American Rococo Era Painter, active 1742-1775  Related Paintings of John Wollaston :. | Portrait of Mann Page and his sister Elizabeth | Lewis Morris | Portrait of Bendict Calvert Maryland politician and planter | Portrait of Bendict Calvert | Portrait of Bendict Calvert |
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Heywood Hardy
British 1843-1933
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Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1480-1528
Walter Gay
1856-1937. He was an American painter born at Hingham, Massachusetts. He married heiress Matilda E. Travers, the daughter of prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course, William R. Travers. In 1876 the couple moved to Paris, France where Walter Gay became a pupil of Leon Bonnat. They lived in an apartment on the Left Bank and in 1907 purchased Chateau Le Breau on a three-hundred-acre walled park near the Forest of Fontainebleau. Walter Gay received an honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 1885; a gold medal in 1888, and similar awards at Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896) and Munich (1897). He became an Officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Society of Secession, Munich.