Italian Rococo Era Painter, ca.1683-1754  Related Paintings of PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista :. | Three Dominican Saints sg | Elijah Taken up in a Chariot of Fire | The Virgin Appearing to St. Philip Neri | The Sacrifice of Isaac | The Assumption of the Virgin |
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Luc - Olivier Merson
French, 1846 - 1920
Parris, Edmund Thomas
English, 1793-1873
Robert Walter Weir
Jun 18.1803-May 1.1889, Painter and teacher. By his own account he was self-taught, with the exception of a few lessons from an unknown heraldic painter named Robert Cooke. However, after exhibiting a few works that were praised by the local press, he was sent to Italy by a group of New York and Philadelphia businessmen for further studies. There he trained with Florentine history painter Pietro Benvenuti. After three years in Europe (1824-7), he returned to New York, where he quickly became a mainstay of the artistic community. In 1831 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design in New York, and three years later he was made instructor of drawing at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, a post he held for the next 42 years.