1842-1924   Related Paintings of John William North,ARA,RWS :. | Jeune garcon sur la plage dYport | Portrait of Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern | Portrait of Countess Maria Mikhailovna Volkonskaya | Portrait of a Man in a Turban possibly a self-portrait | Emperor charlemagne |
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Thomas Chambers
1808-1886 Thomas Chambers Galleries
Osborne, William
Irish, 1823-1901
Ranney William Tylee
German-born American Painter, 1813-1857 American painter. He spent six formative years in the hill country of North Carolina. By 1834 he was working and studying drawing in New York, but two years later he went to Texas to join in the war for independence. Although he returned to New York a year later, it was not until 1846, with the outbreak of the Mexican War, that Ranney began to use his Western experience as the basis for his painting. With the encouragement of the American Art Union, he executed three types of Western subject: the Western trapper or hunter, pursuing a dangerous life on the prairies, as in Trapper's Last Shot (1850; untraced; engraved and lithographed by T. Dwight Booth); the pioneer family, heading across the plains with children, dogs and goods, as in Advice on the Prairie (1853; Malvern, PA, Claude J. Ranney priv. col.); and the dangers of emigration, for example Prairie Fire.