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Willard Metcalf
Willard Leroy Metcalf, American painter, July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925.
Metcalf was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later in Paris at the Académie Julian, where his teachers included Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He also worked among American artists in Grez-sur-Loing and Giverny.
Metcalf lived and worked in Boston, Paris, Giverny, New York, Gloucester, Old Lyme, Cornish, and other New England locations. He returned from Europe in 1888, settled mainly in New York, and became closely associated with the Old Lyme Art Colony and the Cornish Art Colony.
His early work included figure painting and illustration, but he became best known as an American Impressionist landscape painter. His major subjects include New England villages, meadows, hillsides, gardens, and seasonal landscapes, especially winter and spring scenes.
Metcalf was a member of the Ten American Painters, the group formed by artists who broke from the Society of American Artists in 1897–1898. He taught at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York. His honors included membership in the American Watercolor Society and later recognition by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
John Sell Cotman
John Sell Cotman, English painter, May 16, 1782 – July 24, 1842
