Wyatt Eaton
{{short description|Canadian-American painter}}
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| birth_name = Charles Wyatt Eaton
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| birth_place = Philipsburg, Canada East
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1896|06|07|1849|05|06|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Newport, Rhode Island, United States
| nationality =
| known_for = Painter
| training = National Academy of Design, New York City
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Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896){{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|oclc=118037 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037 |accessdate=2021-03-31}} was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.
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. In 1872, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} During this time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-François Millet at Barbizon,{{cite book |last1=Foss |first1=Brian |title="Barbizon Aesthetics in Canadian Landscape Painting". Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven |date=2015 |publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing |others= Ian M. Thom (ed.)|location=Vancouver and London, Eng. |pages=42ff|url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Embracing%20Canada:%20Landscapes%20from%20Krieghoff%20to%20the%20Group%20of%20Seven.&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 |access-date=2021-05-20}} and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} 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). He became a teacher in the Cooper Institute, and opened a studio in New York City but returned to Montreal often to paint portraits. In 1880, he travelled to France and Italy. He became one of the founders of the American Art Association, later the Society of American Artists, of which he was the first secretary.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He was also a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal (1867). Eaton died from tuberculosis at Newport, Rhode Island on June 7, 1896.[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=40204 Dictionary of Canadian Biography online]
Works
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- 1868 - Study of a Classical Bust, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=15996 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1869 - Study after the Antique, c. 1869, oil on paper, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16170 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - Ann Letta Stanton Baker, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16145 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - Arthur Henry Gilmour, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16098 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - Farmer's Boy
- 1870 - John Baker, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16097 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - John Carpenter Baker, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=15998 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - Mary Jane Baker Gilmour, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=15999 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1870 - Lillian Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa{{cite web |last1=Eaton |first1=Wyatt |title=Collection |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/72/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=[M3ONLINE]error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=2021-03-09 |archive-date=2021-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127123924/https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/72/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=%5BM3ONLINE%5Derror.html |url-status=dead }}
- 1870 - Hiram Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
- 1873 - Landscape Sketch, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard –[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16096 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1873 - Monsieur Coclèze, c. 1873, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16000 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1873 - Portrait of a Man, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=16182 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1875 - Reverie, [https://archive.org/stream/americanpainters00sheriala#page/n93/mode/2up view]
- 1876 - Harvesters at Rest
- 1877 - Haystacks at Barbizon, etching in brown on cream laid paper, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=231 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1877 - Laure, etching on cream wove paper,[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=44600 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1877 - Trees in the Forest of Fontainebleau, etching in brown on cream laid paper,[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=229 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1879 - Boy Whittling
- 1879 - Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, oil on canvas, [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/171/William_Cullen_Bryant/set/92d445cea0cb8595def25cbf81fddd8d?referring-q=wyatt+eaton# Brooklyn Museum]
- 1880 - Grandmother and Child
- 1881 - Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. W.W. Ladd Jr.?), charcoal on buff laid paper, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=189272 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1884 - The Shepherdess, oil on canvas, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University{{Cite web |title=A-Z of Collection – Owens Art Gallery |url=https://owensartgallery.com/collection/a-z-of-collection/ |access-date=2022-06-02 |language=en-US}}
- 1884 - The Gleaner, pastel on buff laid paper, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=11087 National Gallery of Canada]
- 1885 - Timothy Cole, oil on canvas,
- 1888 - Ariadne, oil on canvas, [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=7726 Smithsonian American Art Museum]
- 1889 - William T. Evans, oil on canvas, [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=7727 Smithsonian American Art Museum]
- 1894 - Sir William Van Horne, oil on canvas, [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=41168 National Gallery of Canada]
- Lassitude, [https://archive.org/stream/americanpainters00sheriala#page/n91/mode/2up view]
Portraits of Wyatt Eaton
- Portrait of Wyatt Eaton, c. 1878, J. Alden Weir, oil on canvas [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=27353 Smithsonian American Art Museum]
- Self-portrait, 1879 [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1583 Canadian gallery of Art]
Notes
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References
- Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, American Painters of Yesterday and Today, 1919, Priv. print in New York. Chapter: Figure Pictures by Wyatt Eaton: [https://archive.org/stream/americanpainters00sheriala#page/38/mode/2up online]
Attribution:
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Eaton, Wyatt|volume=8|page=839}}
External links
{{commons category|Wyatt Eaton}}
{{Appletons' Poster|Eaton, Wyatt|year=1900|Wyatt Eaton}}
- [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/eaton_wyatt.html Wyatt Eaton] at Artcyclopedia.com
- [http://www.askart.com/artist/E/wyatt_eaton.asp?ID=20263 Wyatt Eaton] at AskArt.com
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