WILLIAM

See also:

• HART, ALBERT BUSHNELL (1854– )
• HART, CHARLES (d. 1683)
• HART, ERNEST ABRAHAM (1835–1898)
• HART, SIR ROBERT
• WILLIAM HART (1823–1894)

HART (1823–1894)  , American landscape and cattle painter, was born in Paisley, Scotland, on the 31st of March 1823, and was taken to America in early youth . He was apprenticed to a carriage painter at Albany, New York, and his first efforts in art were in making landscape decorations for the panels of coaches . Subsequently he returned to Scotland, where he studied for three years . He opened a studio in New York in 1853, and was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1857 and an academician in the following year . He was also a member of the American Water Colour Society, and was its president from 1870 to 1873 . As one of the group of the Hudson River School he enjoyed considerable popularity, his pictures being in many well-known American collections . He died at Mount Vernon, New York, on the 17th of June 1894 . His brother, JAMES MCDOUGAL HART (1828–1901), born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, was also a landscape and cattle painter . He was a pupil of Schirmer in Dusseldorf, and became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1857 and a full member in 1859 . He was survived by two daughters, both figure painters, Letitia B . Hart (b . 1867) and Mary Theresa Hart (b.1872) .