William Swift Daniell
{{short description|American painter}}
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| death_date = June 28, 1933
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William Swift Daniell (1865 – June 28, 1933) was an American painter, and the founder of The Painters' Club of Los Angeles. He built the second studio in the art colony of Laguna Beach, California.
Life
Daniell was born in 1865 in San Francisco, California.{{cite news |title=William Swift Daniell Funeral on Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457496654/?terms=%22William%2BSwift%2BDaniell%22 |accessdate=July 8, 2020 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=June 30, 1933|page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} He was educated in Boston and Paris.{{cite news |title=Last Rites for Artist on Monday. William Swift Daniell, Veteran Painter, Will Be Cremated After Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380438698/?terms=%22William%2BSwift%2BDaniell%22 |accessdate=July 8, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=June 30, 1933|page=21|via=Newspapers.com}}
Daniell opened a studio in Los Angeles, where he painted watercolors. He also founded The Painters' Club of Los Angeles. He later moved to the new art colony of Laguna Beach, California,{{cite news |last1=Chang |first1=Richard |title=Laguna Art Museum explores its past with 'Art Colony' exhibit |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/tn-wknd-et-laguna-art-colony-20180816-story.html |accessdate=July 10, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=August 16, 2018}} where he opened the second studio after George Gardner Symons built the first one.{{cite news |title=William Swift Daniell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380394331/?terms=%22William%2BSwift%2BDaniell%22 |accessdate=July 10, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=July 2, 1933|page=26|via=Newspapers.com}}
Daniell married Annie Laurie Lantz. He died on June 28, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, at age 68.
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Category:Painters from San Francisco
Category:Painters from Los Angeles
Category:People from Laguna Beach, California
Category:American male painters
Category:American watercolorists
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:19th-century American male artists
Category:20th-century American male artists
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