# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sidney-mount
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:44:51.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sidney-mount"
name: "William Sidney Mount"
slug: "william-sidney-mount"
description: "William Sidney Mount was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket, New York in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by daily life from the 1820s until his death in 1868 at the age of sixty. During that time he achieved fame in the U.S. and Europe as a painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting. Mount was also passionate about music and a fiddle player, a composer and collector of songs, symphonies, sonatas and other works, and designed and patented several versions of his own violin which he named the \"Cradle of Harmony.\" Many of his paintings also feature musicians and groups of people engaged in dance in rural settings."
tagline: "American painter (1807-1868)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Sidney_Mount.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1807-11-26"
deathDate: "1868-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.55280933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Sidney Mount"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Sidney Mount"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump