ROBERT

See also:

• WYLIE, ALEXANDER (1815-1887)
• ROBERT WYLIE (1839—1877)

WYLIE (1839—1877)  , American artist, was born in the Isle of Man in 1839 . He was taken to the United States when a child, and studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the directors of which sent him to France in 1863 to study . He won a medal of the second class at the Paris Salon of 1872 . He went to Pont Aven, Brittany, in the early sixties, where he remained until his death on the 4th of February 1877 . He painted Breton peasants and scenes in the history of Brittany; among his important works was a large canvas, " The Death of a Vendean Chief," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York .