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Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819 - 1905) was active/lived in New York / England.  Arthur Tait is known for Animal, game and domestic fowl and hunting scene painting.

Born in Liverpool, England, Arthur Tait became America's first important sporting artist. In England, he trained as a lithographer for Agnews, an art dealer in Manchester, and taught himself to paint by copying works at the Royal Institute. He also assisted American Indian painter George Catlin, with his traveling Indian gallery that he had brought to England, and Tait was impressed with Catlin's subject matter and skill.

In 1850, Tait came to America to pursue his interest in wildlife and hunting, sports that were closed to the public in aristocratic England. He worked primarily from a studio in New York City and never got west of Chicago. Becoming a skilled woodsman and marksman, he acquired excellent first-hand knowledge that he brought to his paintings. As a result, his realistic genre hunting scenes, with their story-telling aspects, made him one of the 19th century's most popular painters.

1850 to 1860 was his most productive period, and his frontier paintings were   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12624 characters.]  Artist bio

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