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Winckworth Allan Gay

Winckworth Allan Gay (1821 - 1910) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Winckworth Gay is known for Landscape, marine-coastal view.

Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait.  His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School.  He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan.

He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts.   He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay, executed in 1845.

He traveled throughout Europe for four years, beginning in 1847.  He was an inveterate traveler, painting locales as varied as the Orient, Egypt, northeastern America and F   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2647 characters.]  Artist bio

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