an important Russian artist and stage designer who designed sets for many productions by Sergei Diaghilev,1863-1930 Related Paintings of Alexander Yakovlevich GOLOVIN :. | The Portrait of Mrs.Makovska | The Spanish woman at Balcony | Actress of E.A | Portrait of Comte | The view of PAVLOV | Related Artists:
Andrea Bonaiuti (c. 1343-1377) Italian painter
david hockneyBorn: 9 July 1937
Birthplace: Bradford, England
Best Known As: British pop artist and critic
John Ferguson WeirAmerican painter and sculptor.
1841-1926
Painter, teacher and sculptor, son of Robert Walter Weir. He grew up at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he was taught by his father. His earliest paintings record the handsome landscape of the surrounding countryside, including View of the Highlands from West Point (1862; New York, NY Hist. Soc.). By November 1862 Weir had settled in New York, occupying quarters in the Studio Building on West Tenth Street, where he became friendly with many of the well-known artists residing there. He also made important contacts through the Century Club and the Athenaeum Club and the Artists' Fund Society. He made his d?but at the National Academy of Design with an Artist's Studio (1864; Los Angeles, CA, Co. Mus. A.), a detailed view of his father's painting room at West Point. The picture's favourable reception led to his election as an Associate of the National Academy of Design.