biografía de William Henry HILLIARD (1836-1905)

Lugar de nacimiento: Auburn, NY

Lugar de defunción: Wash., DC

Direcciones: Madison, IN, 1860s; Indianapolis, 1870s; NYC, 1876; Boston, 1878; NYC, c.1877; Wash., DC, 1899

Profesión: Landscape and portrait painter

Estudios: NYC; Boston; Paris, with Lambinet, Cicéri, Français; England

Exposiciones: Boston AC, 1878-79; Paris Salon, 1882, 1884; NAD, 1876-88; Royal Academy in London, 1880

Obra: Indianapolis Mus. Art (Italian Roses"); Reading (PA) Public Mus. and Art Gallery; PMA"

Comentarios: Hilliard (his name sometimes appears as Hillyard) was active in Indiana during the 1860s and 70s, primarily as a landscapist. He left for New York in 1876; had studios there and in Boston and made several painting trips to Europe, including a stay in Paris from 1880-83. He moved to Wash., DC about 1888. He also painted in the West and is known to have been at Yosemite on a sketching trip in 1892. He was best known for his New England landscapes and marines, although he also painted floral subjects. Among his best known pictures were The Flight above the Clouds" (which sold during his lifetime for $10,000), a portrait of Pres. Garfield, and the tomb of John Howard Payne (auth. of "Home, Sweet Home"). In 1876, William Henry Hilliard and a J. Hillyard are listed in the NAD exh. records as having the same NYC address, suggesting that they are related. Cf. J. Hillyard (both artists) and Henry Hillyard.

Fuentes: G&W; Art Annual, V; CAB; Clement and Hutton; Champlin and Perkins; Thieme-Becker; Graves, Dictionary. More recently see Naylor, NAD; Hughes, Artists in California; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 261 (with repro.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 356."