Robert C. Hinckley

Robert Cutler Hinckley (April 3, 1853 – June 2, 1941)

Early life Hinckley was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on April 3, 1853.

Career

As a teen, he was taken by his parents to Paris for formal training in art, graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts.

Of his more than 350 paintings, His work was described thusly:

Mr. Hinckley has creditably achieved what neither our American artists nor authors seem very fond of attempting--a carefully sustained and elaborate historical study. The varying emotions which Alexander's purpose calls out are strongly depicted in the faces and attitudes of those present as guests and spectators. The approval of the dissolute old Roman reclining with his paramour on the right, is strikingly expressive of a general fondness for cruelty and rapine, while there is the animus of a personal hatred in the elan with which Thais raises her threatening torch on high The figure of Alexander is well-poised and his attitude highly dramatic, but I like best the expressive face and eloquent action of the woman in the central foreground. Admiration, affright and jealousy are marvelously mingled The picture was shown in last year's Salon and in the National Academy Exhibition this season" and John Alsop King, the president of the New-York Historical Society. 88 of his portraits were on display at West Point Military Academy. and were the parents of a son and daughter, Robert O'Donnell Hinckley and Gladys Hinckley (1891–1976), who married McCeney Werlich,

Hinckley died at his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on June 2, 1941.