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Birth
1825 (Bloomingdale, New York)
Death
1888 (Darien, Connecticut)
Lived/Active
Connecticut/California/New York
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landscape and portrait painting, exploration sketches
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Landscape painter Vincent Colyer, born in Bloomingdale, New York, earned
a reputation as a serious artist as well as skilled government
official. He is noted for the images he created of the American
West, especially Indian subjects, landscapes, and botanical
specimens. In the Eastern United States, he became a noted
crayon-portrait artist.
Colyer studied at the National Academy
of Design in New York and with painter John Rubens Smith for four
years. From 1848 to (showing 500 of 4722 characters). |
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