藝術家Robert Spear DUNNING (1829-1905) 生平簡歷

出生地： Brunswick, ME

死亡地点： Westport Harbor, MA

地址： NYC; Fall River, MA, late 1850s; Westport Harbor, MA

职业： Portrait and genre painter

教育： With James Roberts, Thomaston, ME; Daniel Huntington at NAD.

展出： NAD (1850-51, 1880 ); American Art-Union (1850); Boston AC, 1880; Providence Art Club.

工作： NMAA; Fall River Hist. Soc. and Pub. Lib.; Swansea Town Hall (MA)

评论： He was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting. A descendant of Earl of Ashburton, as a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill, and later worked in coastal shipping for a few years while studying art. In 1859, he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists (see entry). About 1865, he began to focus on still life paintings (although he also made frequent visits to New Hampshire to paint landscapes), and in 1870 he founded the Fall River Evening Drawing School. Bright colors and detail characterize his style.

来源： G&W; Art Annual, V; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Fall River BD 1857, 1859. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 50; exh. cat., Painters of Rhode Island (Newport AM, 1986, p.14); For Beauty and for Truth, 47 (w/repro.); The Boston AC; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 235