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Archibald Willard

Archibald McNeal Willard (1836 - 1918) was active/lived in Ohio.  Archibald Willard is known for Figure, genre, history, illustrator.

Born in Bedford, Ohio, Archibald Willard was primarily an illustrator and muralist but remains best known for his painting, Spirit of '76, which he did at the suggestion of photographer J.F. Ryder for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876.  The models for this work were his father and two friends, and he produced at least four versions of the painting.  From his grandfather a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and his father, a fundamentalist preacher, he learned a deep sense of patriotism.  During his childhood, he moved often as his father was assigned a series of parishes in northern Ohio.

Early on, Willard was a carriage painter by trade, beginning in Ohio under the tutelage of E.S. Tripp.  He served in the Civil War, and was constantly sketching battle scenes and soldiers, and his good friend, Hugh Mosher, who played the fife and was one of the models used by Willard in his Spirit of '76.

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