William Sidney Mount
American painter (1807-1868) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 60
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.
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William Sidney Mount, Christ Raising the Daughter of Jairus, 1828, painting.
William Sidney Mount, Self Portrait with Flute, 1828.
William Sidney Mount, Portrait of a Boy, 1837.
William Sidney Mount, Jedediah Williamson, 1837.
William Sidney Mount, Farmer's Nooning, 1838.
William Sidney Mount, Girl with Pitcher, 1829, painting.
About this person
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.
