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Robert Field

Robert Field (1769 - 1819) was active/lived in Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania / Canada, Jamaica.  Robert Field is known for Portrait, chiefly miniature painting.

Although the details of Robert Field's early career in England are obscure, it is known that he received his early training at the Royal Academy schools, London, in 1790.  In 1794 he moved to the United States as part of the influx of British artists and craftsmen enticed by the prosperity of the new republic.  After settling briefly in Baltimore, Maryland,, he took up residence in the nation's capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  There he immediately joined a group of artists led by Charles Willson Peale, the noted painter and naturalist, in establishing the Columbianum, or American Academy of the Fine Arts, an organization whose plan, according to Field, was "the most enlarged, liberal and grand of any in the world." 

When American-born artists objected to the academy's authoritarian, quasi-monarchical structure - George Washington was to play a role analogous to that of George III as the first patron of the organization, and "visitors"   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7180 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 2 similar (related) artists for Robert Field available:    Moses Russell,  Ralph Eugene Cahoon Jr