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See also:ROBERT See also:WALTER See also:WEIR (1803-1889)
, See also:American portrait and See also:historical painter, was See also:born at New Rochelle, New See also:York, on the 18th of See also:June 1803
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He was a See also:pupil of See also:Jarvis, was elected to the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design in 1829, and was teacher of See also:drawing at the See also:United States Military Academy at See also:West Point in 1834-1846, and See also:professor of drawing there in 1846-1876
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He died in New York See also:City on the 1st of May 1889
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Among his better-known See also:works are: " The Embarkation of the Pilgrims " (in the rotunda of the United States Capitol at See also:Washington, D.C.); " Landing of Hendrik See also:Hudson "; " Evening of the Crucifixion"; " See also:Columbus before the See also:Council of See also:Salamanca "; " Our See also:Lord on the See also:Mount of See also:Olives "; " See also:Virgil and See also:Dante See also:crossing the See also:Styx," and several portraits, now at West Point, and " See also:Peace and See also:War " in the See also:Chapel there
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