Willard Leroy Metcalf
(July 1, 1858 - March 9, 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Academie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Womans Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Watercolor Society, Related Paintings of Willard Leroy Metcalf :. | Queen Charlotte | The Birth of Venus (detail) dsfds | Cedar | A Skirmish in the Wilderness | Berggipfel am Morgen | Related Artists: swabian schoolthe lovers
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the cleveland museum of art, delia and l.e. holden funds Davies Arthur BowenAmerican Symbolist Painter, printmaker and tapestry designer , b.1862 d.1928
American painter and illustrator. He first trained as an architectural draughtsman at the Academy of Design, Chicago (1878). After studying briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, he went to New York, where he attended the Gotham School and the Art Students League (1886-8). By 1887 he was working as an illustrator for Century magazine. A realist landscape painter in the 19th-century academic tradition, he was influenced by the painters of the Hudson River school and particularly by the luminist, dream-like landscapes of George Inness. Antonio FiorentinoItalian, 14th Century
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