Wyatt Eaton

Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896)[1] was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.

Wyatt Eaton
Self portrait of Wyatt Eaton
Born
Charles Wyatt Eaton

(1849-05-06)May 6, 1849
Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada
DiedJune 7, 1896(1896-06-07) (aged 47)
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
EducationNational Academy of Design, New York City
Known forPainter

Biography

Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada, Eaton was a student of the National Academy of Design, New York, studying with Samuel Colman, Daniel Huntington and others.[1] In 1872, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.[2] During this time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-François Millet at Barbizon,[3] and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage[2][1] to believe that his art should focus on rural life.

After his return to the United States in 1876, he painted a series of portraits of American poets for the Century magazine which were engraved by Timothy Cole (Eaton`s portrait of him is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario).[1] He became a teacher in the Cooper Institute, and opened a studio in New York City but returned to Montreal often to paint portraits.[1] In 1880, he travelled to France and Italy.[1] He became one of the founders of the American Art Association, later the Society of American Artists, of which he was the first secretary.[2] He was also a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal (1867).[1] Eaton died from tuberculosis at Newport, Rhode Island on June 7, 1896.[4]

Works
The Artist in His Studio (1873), the National Academy of Design

Portraits of Wyatt Eaton

Notes
  1. Bradfield, Helen (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070925046. OCLC 118037. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  2. Chisholm 1911.
  3. Foss, Brian (2015). "Barbizon Aesthetics in Canadian Landscape Painting". Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven. Ian M. Thom (ed.). Vancouver and London, Eng.: Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing. pp. 42ff. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  4. Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
  5. Eaton, Wyatt. "Collection". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Archived from the original on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. "A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery". Retrieved 2022-06-02.

References
  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, American Painters of Yesterday and Today, 1919, Priv. print in New York. Chapter: Figure Pictures by Wyatt Eaton: online

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