French Academic Painter, 1844-1926 Related Paintings of Alfred Guillou :. | Flight into Egypt | Returning Fishing Boarts (mk44) | Virgin and the Son | Composition | An Architectural Caprice | Related Artists:
Gabriel Lory PereBern 1763-1840 Bern
Johannes Frederik HulkDutch, 1829-1911
Walter Gay1856-1937. He was an American painter born at Hingham, Massachusetts. He married heiress Matilda E. Travers, the daughter of prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course, William R. Travers. In 1876 the couple moved to Paris, France where Walter Gay became a pupil of Leon Bonnat. They lived in an apartment on the Left Bank and in 1907 purchased Chateau Le Breau on a three-hundred-acre walled park near the Forest of Fontainebleau. Walter Gay received an honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 1885; a gold medal in 1888, and similar awards at Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896) and Munich (1897). He became an Officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Society of Secession, Munich.