Thomas Wightman was born in Charleston, South Carolina; studied in New York with Henry Inman at the National Academy of Design, circa 1835; was active in Charleston intermittently between 1841-1865 and died in Charleston.
Wightman's training with Inman is more than apparent in the portrait style he employed upon his return to Charleston in the early 1840s. Inman was a master of the American grand manner image most popularly associated with the lush, elegant works of the Empire period (showing 500 of 1498 characters). |
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