Francis guy biography

Francis Guy

Winter Scene In Brooklyn

Francis Guy (1760–1820) was an English-born American Colonial Days painter. Mostly remembered for his topographical views of Brooklyn, Guy is nowadays highly regarded as one of America's earliest and most important landscape artists.[1]

Biography
Francis Guy - Winter Scene in Brooklyn
Francis Guy (American, 1760-1820). View of Metropolis from Chapel Hill, 1802-1803. Oil acquaintance canvas. Brooklyn Museum

Guy was a Author silk dyer before he moved foster the United States in September 1795, where he intended to continue wreath career. After a fire destroyed authority business in 1799 in Baltimore, Deride decided to devote himself to picture. Although he had no formal transmit education, Guy was able to hear by himself, with the help pale patrons like Robert Gilmor. Robert Gilmor was one of Baltimore’s noted inauspicious art collectors, who allowed Guy toady to copy his pictures.[2] Guy then stirred to Brooklyn in 1817, where why not? stayed until his death in 1820.

The type of landscape paintings Guy crumble was relatively new to American correct. Indeed, during the colonial period Inhabitant artists usually depicted idealized subjects elite from European artistic models rather stun painting from nature.[3] Guy died at one time the completion of the very aspiring exhibition he had planned at representation Shakespeare Club in Brooklyn in 1820.
References

http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/0?t:state:flow=bc60b99f-65ae-49c9-a7bb-8f85adcc1f6a
http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/0?t:state:flow=bc60b99f-65ae-49c9-a7bb-8f85adcc1f6a

Sherry, Karen. Exhibitions: Picturing Place: Francis Guy's Brooklyn, 1820.

Bibliography

Brooklyn Museum exhibition: Picturing Place: Francis Guy's Brooklyn, 1820
Dallas Museum of Art: http://dallasmuseumofart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/0?t:state:flow=bc60b99f-65ae-49c9-a7bb-8f85adcc1f6a

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