American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood (1879)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 322
. Wyant, the landscape-painter, was born in Port Wash-ington, Ohio, in 1839. For several years he was a sign-painter in that village.He removed to Cincinnati and painted some pictures, which commended them-selves to the art-patrons of the city, and brought him money enough to go toEurope with. At… … h < a a hWK aa S g D en Q i < ^ ^ ALEXANDER IT. WYANT. 165 the woods shooting. The Diisseldorf school seems to have made no impres-sion upon the young artist. He held his sympathies in reserve until he sawthe landscapes of Constable and Turner in London. He returned to America,opened a studio…
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