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ROBERT WALTER WEIR (1803-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 496 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . He died in New York See also:City on the 1st of May 1889 . 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 . His son, See also:JOHN See also:FERGUSON See also:WEIR (b . 1841), painter and sculptor, became a Member of the National Academy of Design in 1866, and was made director of the Yale University See also:Art School in 1868 . Another son, See also:JULIAN ALDEN WEIR (b . 1852), studied under his See also:father, and under J . L . Ger8me, and became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter . He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists in 1877, and became a member of the National Academy of Design (1886) and of the Ten American Painters, New York .

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