biografia di John WILLIAMSON (1826-1885)

Birth place: Toll Cross, near Glasgow, Scotland

Death place: Glenwood-on-the-Hudson, NY

Addresses: Brooklyn, NY, 1861-68; NYC, 1869-81; Glenwood-on-the-Hudson, c.1879-on; Yonkers, NY, 1883-85

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Graham Art School, Brooklyn Inst.

Exhibited: NAD, 1850-85; AAU, 1852, 1853; Brooklyn AA, 1861-82; Washington and Boston; Utica AA

Member: ANA, 1861; Brooklyn AA, 1861 (a founder; secretary, 1861-68; resigned after a falling out with the group); Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, 1864 (art committee)

Comments: Williamson came to America in 1831 and spent most of his life in Brooklyn. A Hudson River School painter, he traveled up the Hudson River to Lake George, painting in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, and into New England, especially in the Berkshire Mountains (MA), the White Mountains (NH), the Green Mountains (VT), and in Connecticut. In the early 1860s, he developed an interest in still life, favoring lilacs, morning glories, cherries, and raspberries.

Sources: G&W; CAB; Clement and Hutton; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Swan, BA; Washington Art Assoc. Cat., 1857; NYBD 1850+; Art Digest (May 1, 1945), 2, repro.; Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 176; P&H Samuels, 532; For Beauty and for Truth, 92 (w/repro.)