William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was an American genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School.

Biography

William Mount was born at Setauket, Long Island, New York, on 26 November 1807. He trained at the National Academy of Design in New York, New York, and in 1832 was made a full Academician. He died at Setauket, Long Island, on the 19th of November 1868.

Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes from everyday life. Two of his more famous paintings are Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown) and Bargaining for a Horse (1835, New-York Historical Society, New York City).^{[citation needed]}

The largest collection of his works is located in the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages.^{[citation needed]}

William Sidney Mount House and other monuments

His home and studio, the William Sidney Mount House, is a National Historic Landmark. One of the local elementary schools in The Three Village Central School District is named in his honor, as is PS 174 elementary school in Rego Park, Queens. A residential building is named after him on the Stony Brook University campus.^{[citation needed]}

Family

His brother, Shepard Alonzo Mount (1804–1868), also an artist, best known as a portrait painter, became a National Academician in 1842.

References

Attribution

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

External links

• Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, in particular see Our Heritage: The World of William Sidney Mount (Word doc)

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  The Painter's Triumph, 1838

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  The Card Players, oil on panel, 1847–1850. Reynolda House Museum of American Art

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  Caught Napping- (Boys Caught Napping in a Field) - Brooklyn Museum