WEIR, ROBERT WALTER (1803-1889)

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WEIR, ROBERT WALTER (1803-1889) , American portrait and historical painter, was born at New Rochelle, New

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, on the 18th of June 1803. He was a pupil of Jarvis, was elected to the National

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in 1829, and was teacher of drawing at the United States Military

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at West Point in 1834-1846, and professor of drawing there in 1846-1876. He died in New

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City on the 1st of May 1889. Among his better-known works are: " The Embarkation of the Pilgrims " (in the rotunda of the United States Capitol at Washington, D.C.); " Landing of Hendrik Hudson "; " Evening of the Crucifixion"; " Columbus before the Council of Salamanca "; " Our Lord on the

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of Olives "; " Virgil and Dante crossing the Styx," and several portraits, now at West Point, and " Peace and War " in the Chapel there.
His son, JOHN FERGUSON WEIR (b. 1841), painter and sculptor, became a Member of the National Academy of

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in 1866, and was made director of the Yale University Art School in 1868. Another son, JULIAN ALDEN WEIR (b. 1852), studied under his father, and under J. L. Ger8me, and became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists in 1877, and became a member of the National Academy of Design (1886) and of the Ten American Painters, New York.

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