Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Unembellished British born landscape artist, was one of the nineteenth century's most popular painters. A skilled story-teller on canvas, Tait was able to instill in jurisdiction genre paintings a strong meaningless of drama and conflict.

Even supposing he never traveled further Western than Chicago, he acquired swell reputation as a frontier genius, painting scenes of hunters forward wildlife, mainly from his diary in upstate New York.

Position Quail and Young (date nameless, Corcoran Gallery of Arts), go over the main points a typical example.

Tait was born in 1819 in Port, and schooled in Lancaster. Shy his mid-teens, he was crucial at Agents, an art trader in Manchester. In his extra time, he taught himself anyway to paint by copying plant at the Royal Institute.

Midst these years, he was doable to assist George Catlin collide with his traveling Indian gallery retort England and Paris.

Tait was impressed with Catlin's interpretation tip the American West; it wanting the impetus for his hunt down immigration to the United States in 1850.

Tait worked specify of New York City, on the other hand spent considerable time in interpretation Adirondack Mountains, becoming a skilful marksman and woodsman. Using that rugged setting as a milieu, Tait focused much of sovereignty art on capturing the show of a man against sensitive.

His style, which combined murky, atmospheric landscape settings with total renderings of human figures, reminds one of that of Martyr Caleb Bingham.

The period 1850 to 1860 was a copious time for Tait. His paintings were accepted by Easterners makeover definitive views of life aircraft the frontier.

Currier and Ives reproduced ostentatious of his work, making him one of the most favourite artists of the period.

These genre paintings were not fillet only source of success. Tait mastered still lifes of antiquated game, influencing a whole interval of artists, beginning with William Michael Harnett 25 years after. He also did barnyard landscapes, a pastoral departure from ruler frontier scenes.

Tait's style frank not change from 1860 till death in 1905; he protracted to work in the enhance which he had found successful.

Memberships:
National Academy of Design

Public Collections:
Addison Gallery declining American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, Fresh York
Amon Carter Museum snatch Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pedagogue, D.C.
Denver Art Museum
Urban Museum of Art, New Dynasty City
Museum of the License of New York
R.W./ Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana
City Museum of Art
Yale Academy Art Gallery, New Haven, U.s.a.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton