ARTHUR

See also:

• FITZWILLIAM, SIR WILLIAM (1526-1599)
• FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM, 2ND EARL (1748-1833)

FITZWILLIAM

See also:

• TAIT, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL (1811-1882)
• ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM TAIT (1819-1905)
• TAIT, PETER GUTHRIE (1831-1901)

TAIT (1819-1905)  , American artist, was born pear Liverpool, England, on the 5th of August1819 . He emigrated to the United States in 1850, and was identified with the art life of New York until his death . In 1858 he was elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design, New York . He died at Yonkers, New York, on the 28th of April 1905 . He painted barnyard fowls and wild birds as well as sheep and deer, with great dexterity, and reproductions of his minute panels of chickens had an enormous vogue .