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Mount, William Sidney

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Mount, William Sidney (1807–1868)

US painter. He was one of the first and most popular US genre painters, his speciality being humorous and sentimental scenes of rural life. His pictures were made popular through the prints of Currier and Ives.

He was apprenticed to his brother, a painter of signs and portraits, and then studied in the schools of the National Academy of Design. He opened a studio 1829 and for a time travelled about the country making studies of American rural life. He eventually settled in Long Island, which provided him with many subjects. In sentiment and humour his work may be compared with that of Scottish genre painter David Wilkie.



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