John Robinson Tait

John Robinson Tait (January 14, 1834, Cincinnati - July 29, 1909, Baltimore) was an American landscape painter, art critic, and travel writer. He spent many years in Germany, where he was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule and the Munich School.

John Robinson Tait
Evening at the Lake Shore (1876)
Born(1834-01-13)January 13, 1834
Cincinnati
DiedJuly 29, 1909(1909-07-29) (aged 75)
Baltimore
NationalityAmerican
EducationBethany College
Notable work
Dolce Far Niente, European Life, Legend, and Landscape, Reminiscences of a Poet-Painter
MovementDüsseldorfer Malerschule and the Munich School

Biography

He received his higher education at Bethany College, where he published a student magazine called The Stylus. In 1853, he made his first trip to Europe (primarily Italy) in the company of his teacher, William Louis Sonntag.[1] He paid a short visit to Düsseldorf to see an old acquaintance, Worthington Whittredge. During his stay, he met Emmanuel Leutze and his student, fellow American William Washington, who encouraged Tait to study there.

In 1855, he returned to the United States in the company of his childhood friend, Thomas Buchanan Read, whom he had met in Florence. Four years later, he wrote a book describing his experiences and, that same year, returned to Düsseldorf, where he remained until 1870 as a student of August Weber and Andreas Achenbach.[1] He also worked with Rudolf Wiegmann at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, between 1873 and 1876, took further lessons with Adolf Heinrich Lier in Munich.

He took two trips to the United States during this time, in 1866 and the early 1870s, where he exhibited at the "Cincinnati Industrial Exposition" of 1871 and was awarded first prize. He eventually settled in Baltimore and wrote art criticism for the New York Evening Mail. Most of his extant paintings are in Europe.[1]

Writings

References
  1. Brief biography @ Victorian Artists.
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