Wilton Lockwood
Wilton Lockwood (September 12, 1861 – March 21, 1914, age 52) was an American artist born in Wilton, Connecticut.
Biography[edit]
Lockwood was born in Wilton, Connecticut to Emily Middlebrook and John L Lockwood.[1] He was a pupil and an assistant of John La Farge, and also studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower painter. He became a member of both the Society of American Artists (1898) and the Copley Society of Art in Boston, as well as an associate and, in 1912, member of the National Academy of Design in New York.[2] He painted portraits of Grover Cleveland, John La Farge and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Lockwood died in Brookline, Massachusetts.[3]
Works by him are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Worcester Art Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
References[edit]
- ^ "Wilton Lockwood Dead". The New York Times. New York. March 22, 1914. p. 21.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Lockwood, Wilton". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 785.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lockwood, Wilton". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 855.
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