Australian Classicist Painter, 1864-1949  Related Paintings of Aby Altson :. | Women in the farm | Zuschauerraum im Alten Burgtheater in Wien | Portrait of Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson | Yellow Christ's self-portrait | The Lauterbrunnen Valley |
Related Artists:
Charles Schreiber
French 1843-1903
Fritz Beinke
(1842- 1907 ) - Painter painted The toymaker of Nuremberg in 1882
William Alexander Coulter
(March 7, 1849 - March 13, 1936) was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869. In the late 1870s, he went to Europe to study with marine artists Vilhelm Melbye, François Etienne Musin, and J. C. Jacobsen. In 1896, he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Call. Between 1909 and 1920, he painted five 16 by 18 foot murals for the Assembly Room of the Merchants Exchange Building. Coulter resided in the San Francisco Bay Area until his death at the age of 87, in his Sausalito home. During the course of his life, his paintings chronicled the history of shipping and navigation in the San Francisco and San Pablo bays.