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ROBERT WALTER 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 pupil of See also: Jarvis, was elected to the See also: National See also: Academy of Design in 1829, and was teacher of See also: drawing at the See also: United States Military Academy at West Point in 1834-1846, and professor of drawing there in 1846-1876
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He died in New York 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 Hudson "; " Evening of the Crucifixion"; " See also: Columbus before the Council of Salamanca "; " Our See also: Lord on the See also: Mount of Olives "; " Virgil and See also: Dante See also: crossing the See also: Styx," and several portraits, now at West Point, and " See also: Peace and War " in the See also: Chapel there
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His son, See also: JOHN
See also: FERGUSON See also: WEIR (b
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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
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Another son, JULIAN ALDEN WEIR (b
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1852), studied under his See also: father, and under J
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L
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Ger8me, and became a distinguished portrait, figure and landscape painter
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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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