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Birth
1807 (Setauket, Long Island, New York)
Death
1868 (Setauket, Long Island, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait - William Sidney Mount - Self Portrait
Often Known For
genre, history, portrait, and landscape painting
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Born on a farm in Setauket, Long Island, William Mount became what art
historian Matthew Baigell described as the "foremost American genre
painter." When other artists were trying to copy European
academic subjects of history, religion, and literature, he stayed in
America and focused on the daily lives of East Coast people.
Many
of his paintings expressed moralistic and political views, and he was
also the first major American artists to portray black people with
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