藝術家William Edmund WEST (1788-1857) 生平簡歷

出生地： Lexington, KY

死亡地点： Nashville, TN

地址： Itinerant in Phila. and South through 1819; Europe; Baltimore, 1838; NYC, 1841-55; Nashville, TN

职业： Portrait and figure painter

教育： Phila. with Thomas Sully c.1807; Academia delle Bella Arte, Florence, Italy, c.1819-24

展出： Royal Academy, London, 1826-33; London, 1834-37

会员： NA, 1832

工作： Univ. Kentucky Art Mus., Lexington; Shelburne (VT) Mus.; Tulane Univ., New Orleans

评论： Began his career as an itinerant miniature painter, traveling to Natchez, MS, and New Orleans as early as 1802. It is believed he remained around Philadelphia from c.1807 until c.1816, when he went to New Orleans and then to Natchez, MS, returning to both places c.1818 and also painting portraits in Cincinnati, OH, and Nashville, TN, through the summer of 1819. Traveling to Italy in the fall of 1819, he remained for about four years, during which time he painted his well-known portraits of Byron, the Countess Guiccioli, Shelley, and Trelawney. In 1824 he went to Paris where he became friendly with Washington Irving. By this time he had begun to create allegorical and religious subjects in addition to portraits. From 1825-38 he had a studio in London. Having lost his money in an unfortunate investment, West returned to America and opened a studio in Baltimore, and then one in NYC. His last years were spent in Nashville (TN).

来源： G&W; DAB; Dunn, Unknown Pictures of Shelley"; Dunn, "An Artist of the Past"; Richardson, "E.J. Trelawney by William Edward West"; Rutledge, PA; Brown and Brown; Graves, Dictionary; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Swan, BA; NYCD 1840-52; Album of American Battle Art.; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 409; Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 70-71 (w/repros.); Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 137 (w/repro.); Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 87, 139"