Wyatt Eaton

Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896) was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.

Biography

Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada, Eaton was a student of the National Academy of Design, New York, studying with Samuel Colman, Daniel Huntington and others. and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage

Works

1868 - Study of a Classical Bust, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1869 - Study after the Antique, c. 1869, oil on paper, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - Ann Letta Stanton Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - Arthur Henry Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - Farmer's Boy 1870 - John Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - John Carpenter Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - Mary Jane Baker Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada 1870 - Lillian Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 1870 - Hiram Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 1884 - The Gleaner, pastel on buff laid paper, National Gallery of Canada 1885 - Timothy Cole, oil on canvas, 1888 - Ariadne, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1889 - William T. Evans, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1894 - Sir William Van Horne, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada Lassitude, view

Portraits of Wyatt Eaton Portrait of Wyatt Eaton, c. 1878, J. Alden Weir, oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum Self-portrait, 1879 Canadian gallery of Art