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Birth
1818 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Death
1867 (New York City)
Lived/Active
Missouri/New York
Self-portrait of Charles Deas
Often Known For
Indian and frontier genre painting
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Western Painters
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| Known as a painter of dramatic and romantic western scenes, he was born in Philadelphia to a family of career military people including his grandfather, Ralph Izard, a Revolutionary War hero. It was expected that Charles would be a military man, but he grew to prefer painting trips in the Hudson River Valley to sitting in classes at West Point Academy. In the mid-1830s, he studied briefly at the National Academy of Design, earning a reputation for sporting and domestic genre scenes. He first exh (showing 500 of 3984 characters). |
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