Wilton Lockwood
American artist
Intro | American artist | |
A.K.A. | Robert Wilton Lockwood | |
A.K.A. | Robert Wilton Lockwood | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Painter | |
Work field | Arts | |
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Birth | 12 September 1861, Wilton (Connecticut) | |
Death | 21 March 1914Brookline (aged 52 years) |
Wilton Lockwood (September 12, 1861 – March 21, 1914, age 52) was an American artist born in Wilton, Connecticut. He was a pupil and an assistant of John LaFarge, and also studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower painter. He became a member of both the Society of American Artists (1898) and the Copley Society in Boston, as well as an associate of the National Academy of Design in New York. He painted portraits of Grover Cleveland, John LaFarge and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..