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William Babcock

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William Perkins Babcock (1826 - 1899) was active/lived in Massachusetts / France.  William Babcock is known for Figure-peasant-allegoric, still life.

An expatriate painter, noted for figure painting of peasants as well as Classical, Biblical scenes, mythology subjects, and still lifes, William Babcock was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but lived most of his life in France.

In 1847, he became one of the first Americans to study with Thomas Couture in Paris. He then went to the village of Barbizon, where, along with other American artists, he did peasant genre paintings. He became good friends with Jean-Francois Millet, a leading Barbizon painter, whose figure painting much influenced Babcock.

Babcock introduced William Morris Hunt to Millet, and, in turn, Hunt became a strong exponent of the Barbizon School of painting in America. Although he continued to live in Paris and died in that city, Babcock had a good market for his work in Boston.  The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of his works.

His painting has been described as having a "strong poetic strain" and a "Venetian feeling fo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1200 characters.]  Artist bio

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26 Book References for William Babcock
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector 1840-2001
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
2000 Vose, Marcia L , editor Vose Art Notes Works on Paper 29 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1982 Meixner, Laura L An International Episode Millet, Monet & their N American Counterparts
(Exhibition catalog)		 206 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1973 Mitchell, Peter Great Flower Painters Four Centuries of Floral Art 272 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1970 Landgren, Marchal E American Pupils of Thomas Couture
(Exhibition catalog)		 65 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
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