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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Fort Dumpling, Narrgansett Bay
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Dublin, Ireland, William Guy Wall became an accomplished artist
before emigrating to New York City where he was a founder of the
National Academy of Design and exhibited there as well as the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In American art
history, he was a key figure in Hudson-River style landscape painting,
although he lived much of his life in Ireland. His watercolor views of
the Hudson River and of New York City were published in his Hudson
River Portfolio, which was very popular and had several editions
between 1820 and 1828.
He was skillful with atmospheric
perspective in his landscapes, and he created spiritual effects with
lights at a time when viewers were used to literal depictions. Between
1828 and 1835, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island; New Haven,
Connecticut; and Brooklyn, New York. He was then in Ireland for twenty
years working as a silhouettist and painting pictorial backgrounds; in
Newburgh, New York from 1856 to 1860; and then in Ireland the remaining
years of his life.
His death date is uncertain but known to be after 1864.
Sources include:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from Cornelia Moynihan, who credits Grove Dictionary of Art
(b Dublin, 1792; d Ireland, c. 1864).
American
painter of Irish birth. He arrived in New York in 1812, already
well-trained as an artist and soon became famous for his sensitive
watercolour views of the Hudson River Valley and environs. Some
of these watercolours were published as engravings by John Hill and his
son John William Hill in the Hudson River Portfolio (New York, 18215), the first book to make Americans aware of the beauty and sublimity of their own scenery.
Wall is often seen as a forerunner or early member of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL. Good examples of his work are the "Covered Bridge across the Sacandaga River", Hadley, New York (1820; New York, NY Hist. Soc.) and the "View near Hudson" (1822; Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum.).
Wall
was a founder-member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and
exhibited frequently at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Apollo Association, New York. He
lived in America from 1812 to 1835 and again from 1856 to 1860; little
is known of the years after his final return to Ireland. His son,
William Archibald Wall (1820-1875), was also a landscape painter. |
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William Wall is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Hudson River School Painters
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