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William Penn Morgan

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William Penn Morgan (1826 - 1900) was active/lived in New York.  William Morgan is known for Domestic genre, animal, figure.

A painter, William Penn Morgan was born in London in 1826. At age fourteen, he went to Paris and studied in the atelier* of Thomas Couture.  However, during the early part of his residency he was much more interested in the "sights and sounds of Paris" than in academic studies, but eventually he settled into studying the Old Masters* and also studying at the French government school at Le Havre. 

However, not feeling any great sense of accomplishment and not wanting to return to England as a 'failure', he spent the 1840s as a sailor. In 1851, he arrived penniless in Brooklyn, New York City, a place he died in 1900 and where he had had remained for most of the rest of his career.
Between 1855 and 1860, he intermittently attended the school of the National Academy of Design* but later confessed to writer Theodore Dreiser that he had done "very little studying" during that time and wished he had devoted more time to his education. In 1852, he had begun submitting pai   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1775 characters.]  Artist bio

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18 Book References for William Penn Morgan
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1994 Editors American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Edwards, Lee M; Jan Seidler Ramirez; Timothy Anglin Burgard Domestic Bliss Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1981 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 23 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1968 Hamilton, Sinclair (Intro) Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 1670-1870 0 No
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1882 Linton, William J History of Wood Engraving in America 0 No
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