Robert Wylie

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Robert Wylie (1839 - February 4, 1877), American artist, was born in the Isle of Man.

He was taken to the United States when a child, and studied in the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, the directors of which sent him to France in 1863 to study. He won a medal of the second class at the Paris Salon of 1872.

He went to Pont-Aven, Brittany, in the early sixties, where he remained until his death. He painted Breton peasants and scenes in the history of Brittany; among his important works was a large canvas, "The Death of a Vendean Chief," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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