American Painter, 1822-1872,was an American poet and portrait painter born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Read wrote a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer Story. Some of the shorter pieces included in these, e.g., "Sheridan's Ride," "Drifting,""The Angler", "The Oath," and "The Closing Scene," have great merit. Read was briefly associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His greatest artistic popularity took place in Florence. Among portraits he painted were Abraham Lincoln, Henry Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and William Henry Harrison. Read died from injuries sustained in a carriage accident, which weakened him and led him to contract pneumonia while on shipboard returning to America.   Related Paintings of Thomas Buchanan Read :. | Sleeping Christ with Zacharias John the Baptist | Stiil-life with a Pendulum sg | Moise Kisling (mk39) | Stilleben (Vanitas) | Christ Pantocrator |
Related Artists:
Alessio Baldovinetti
Florence ca 1425-1499
Benjamin Patersen
painted Saint Petersburg in 1801
Bartolomeo Vivarini
Venice ca 1432-after 1491