Wilton Lockwood
{{short description|American painter (1861–1914)}}
Wilton Lockwood (September 12, 1861{{snd}}March 21, 1914, age 52) was an American artist born in Wilton, Connecticut.
Biography
Lockwood was born in Wilton, Connecticut to Emily Middlebrook and John L Lockwood.{{cite news |title=Wilton Lockwood Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 22, 1914 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-mar-22-1914-1237976/ |location=New York |page=21}} He was a pupil and an assistant of John La Farge, and also studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower painter. He became a member of both the Society of American Artists (1898) and the Copley Society of Art in Boston, as well as an associate and, in 1912, member of the National Academy of Design in New York.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He painted portraits of Grover Cleveland, John La Farge and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Lockwood died in Brookline, Massachusetts.{{Cite EB1922|title=Lockwood, Wilton|volume=31|page=785|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri31chisrich/page/785/mode/1up?view=theater}}
Works by him are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Worcester Art Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
References
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- {{EB1911|wstitle=Lockwood, Wilton|volume=16|page=855}}
External links
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- [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=2&viewmode=1&item=11.33 Sample of his work "Peonies"]
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American portrait painters
Category:19th-century American male artists
Category:20th-century American male artists
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