Marcus Waterman

Marcus ("Mark") Waterman (1 September 1834 – 2 April 1914) was an American painter, mainly of landscapes and Orientalist subjects.

Life Waterman was born in Providence, Rhode Island to William Henry and Martha Burrill Pearce Waterman, oldest of six siblings, including a brother, William Clarence Waterman, who survived him. He graduated from Brown University in 1857 and moved to New York, where for twenty years he kept a studio in the New York University building. He also spent much time traveling in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s; among his destinations were the Netherlands, France, southern Spain, and North Africa. Her father was born in Brescia, Italy, but her mother was from Dorchester, Massachusetts. She immigrated to Boston in 1871. She returned to Europe for extended periods in 1878 and 1882, and soon became “a good deal of a pet among the artists [...] Her naturalness – her genuineness – appealed to Mark Waterman from the beginning [...] And there is no doubt but she brought a great deal of sunshine into the life of this quiet man years before they were married. She was the one person who understood him.” in Brescia on April 8. His brother Clarence erected a cenotaph to him at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. Marietta returned to Boston and lived with her sister in Watertown, Massachusetts, until her sister’s death in 1920. She revisited Brescia in 1921, caught pneumonia and died there on 5 June 1921, and was inurned next her husband at Cimitero Vantiniano. Waterman was described after his death as a man of broad intellect and a deep thinker, something of a philosopher; he was said to hold the average American art buyer in contempt, and was well-off enough to enjoy the art of painting for itself, rather than for any pecuniary reasons. the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, the Boston Public Library, and the Indiana University Art Museum.