Wyatt Eaton

Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896) was a Canadian/American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.

Biography

Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada, Eaton was a student of the National Academy of Design, New York. In 1872, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme. During this time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-François Millet at Barbizon, and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage.

After his return to the United States in 1877, he became a teacher in the Cooper Institute, and opened a studio in New York City. He became one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, in which he was the first secretary. Eaton died from tuberculosis at Newport, Rhode Island on June 7, 1896.^[1]

Works

• 1868 - Study of a Classical Bust, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1869 - "Study after the Antique", c. 1869, oil on paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Ann Letta Stanton Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Arthur Henry Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Farmer's Boy
• 1870 - John Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - John Carpenter Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Mary Jane Baker Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1873 - Landscape Sketch, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard National Gallery of Canada
• 1873 - Monsieur Coclèze, c. 1873, National Gallery of Canada
• 1873 - Portrait of a Man, National Gallery of Canada
• 1875 - Reverie, view
• 1876 - Harvesters at Rest
• 1877 - Haystacks at Barbizon, etching in brown on cream laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1877 - Laure, etching on cream wove paper,National Gallery of Canada
• 1877 - Trees in the Forest of Fontainebleau, etching in brown on cream laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
• 1879 - Boy Whittling
• 1879 - Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum
• 1880 - Grandmother and Child
• 1881 - Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. W.W. Ladd Jr.?), charcoal on buff laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1884 - The Gleaner, pastel on buff laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1888 - Ariadne, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 1889 - William T. Evans, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 1894 - Sir William Van Horne, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• Lassitude, view

Portraits of Wyatt Eaton

• Portrait of Wyatt Eaton, c. 1878, J. Alden Weir, oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Self-portrait, 1879 Canadian gallery of Art

Notes

References

• Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, American Painters of Yesterday and Today, 1919, Priv. print in New York. Chapter: Figure Pictures by Wyatt Eaton: online

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eaton, Wyatt". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

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• Wyatt Eaton at Artcyclopedia.com
• Wyatt Eaton at AskArt.com