b Lowell MA 1834 d London 1903 Related Paintings of James Abbot McNeill Whistler :. | The Princess from the Land of Porcelain | Portrait of Lady Meux in Furs | Trouville | Symphony on White No 2 Little White Girl (nn03) | Harmonie en tons chair et noir:Portrait de Theodore Duret | Related Artists:
SANDRART, Joachim vonGerman Baroque Era Painter, ca.1609-1688
Ostade, Isaack Jansz. vanDutch Baroque Era Painter, 1621-1649
Carl Wimar 1828 - 1862,American painter and photographer of German birth. He arrived in St Louis in 1843. From 1846 to 1850 he studied painting under the St Louis artist Leon de Pomarede (1807-92). In 1852 he continued his studies at the Kunstakademie in Desseldorf, where he worked with Josef Fay (1813-75) and Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze until about 1856. In 1858, having once more based himself in St Louis, he travelled up the Mississippi in order to draw and photograph Indians. Wimar joined a party of the American Fur Trading Company and made several journeys between 1858 and 1860 up the Mississippi, Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in search of Indian subjects. His painting, the Buffalo Hunt (1860; St Louis, MO, Washington U., Gal. A.), became one of the original works in the collection of the Western Academy of Art. In 1861 Wimar was commissioned to decorate the rotunda of the St Louis Court-house with scenes of the settlement of the West.
