Lemuel Wilmarth (1835 - 1918)

Lemuel Wilmarth

Lemuel Everett Wilmarth was an American painter. He was a founder of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the National Academy of Design. He was professor in charge of the schools of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan from 1870 to 1890. He was among America's most respected teachers of art during the later nineteenth century. In 1854 he began the study of drawing in night school at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He went to Europe in 1858 and studied at the Royal Academy at Munich and at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris. Wilmarth began his teaching career in New York in 1867 at the Brooklyn Academy of Design. In 1870, he was asked to head the Schools of the National Academy of Design. In May 1871 he was elected "associate" to the National Academy of Design in New York. That same month he was offered the job of Professor of Art at Yale University, but he chose to remain at the National Academy of Design. In May 1873 he was elected "academician" to the National Academy of Design. Among his best known paintings are The Pick of the Orchard, Ingratitude, Left in Charge and Sunny Italy.

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Date and place of birt:	11 november 1835, Attleboro, USA
Date and place of death:	27 july 1918, New York City, USA
Nationality:	USA
Period of activity:	XIX, XX century
Specialization:	Artist, Genre painter, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:	Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life
Art style:	Realism