Robert Walter Weir
ARTISTRobert Walter Weir was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. More than 450 of his works are known, and he created many unsigned paintings that may never be attributed to him.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Robert Walter Weir (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Robert Walter Weir, wall art & digital downloads
1 works by Robert Walter Weir (American, 1803–1889) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Robert Walter Weir was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. More than 450 of his works are known, and he created many unsigned paintings that may never be attributed to him.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Robert Walter Weir's work on the site falls under Drawings (23), Figurative (11), Landscape (3).
By movement, it's catalogued as Impressionism (30), Romanticism (8), Realism (2).
Culture: American (40).
By orientation: 20 landscape, 20 portrait.
Other American artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- Winslow Homer — 1,138 artworks
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler — 881 artworks
- George Catlin — 703 artworks
- James McNeill Whistler — 609 artworks
- Thomas Nast — 488 artworks
- Frederic Edwin Church — 445 artworks
- John Rubens Smith — 276 artworks
- Elihu Vedder — 275 artworks
Prints of these artworks
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Sizes and framing
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