Born in Lorton in the Lake District of England, Francis Guy became one
of the earliest landscape painters in America and did work that
reflected its evolution from picturesque scenes tied to European
tradition to topographical studies to settings where the artist worked.
As a young man, he was a silk dyer in London, and then in 1795,
emigrated to New York and established a silk dyeing plant in Brooklyn.
He
failed at this endeavor and experimented in other mediums includin (showing 500 of 2010 characters). |
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