Marcus Mote
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Marcus Mote (1817 — February 26, 1898) was a Quaker artist who worked in Ohio and Indiana.
Biography
Mote was born in West Milton, Ohio in 1817.{{cite book|title=History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwayneco01inte|year=1884|publisher=Inter-State Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwayneco01inte/page/n676 643]}} In 1844 he moved to Lebanon, Ohio where he established a studio. He worked there as an itinerant artist. He opened a studio there, in 1864 he removed to Richmond, Indiana.{{cite journal | url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/8358/10429 | title=Marcus Mote and his Pioneer School of Design | journal=Indiana Magazine of History | date=December 1955 | accessdate=22 January 2017 | author=Thornburg, Opal}} He began teaching art to a few students in his Lebanon studio, which he expanded in Richmond. He called his new venture "Richmond Academy of Design," during his time in Richmond he campaigned for general art education. in public schools.
Mote's work includes landscapes, still lifes, religious paintings, portraits and photographs. He painted portraits of at least three governors, Jeremiah Morrow and Tom Corwin of Ohio and Oliver P. Morton of Indiana.
Marcus Mote died Feb. 26, 1898 and is buried in the Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.
His works can be found in the collections of the Richmond Art Museum, Wayne County Historical Museum,{{cite web | url=http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/bio/mote-marcus.htm | title=Marcus Mote | publisher=Waynet | accessdate=25 June 2017}} Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Earlham College,{{cite web | url=https://archives.earlham.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=32&q=&rootcontentid=1372 | title=Marcus Mote Collection, 1840-1898, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives | publisher=Earlham College | accessdate=22 January 2017}} the Warren County [Ohio] Historical Society, Glendower State Memorial and the Ohio Statehouse.
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Category:American portrait painters
Category:Painters from Indiana
Category:People from West Milton, Ohio
Category:American male painters
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:19th-century American male artists
Category:People from Lebanon, Ohio
Category:Artists from Richmond, Indiana
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