Loading…
Abbott Handerson Thayer
American artist (1849-1921)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 August 1849
- Died
- 29 May 1921
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Abbott
- Family name
- Thayer
- Father
- William Henry Thayer
- Mother
- Ellen Thayer
- Spouse
- Emma Beach Thayer
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, naturalist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Temple Gold Medal
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin
- educated at
- Beaux-Arts de Paris, Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- name in native language
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
- notable work
- Stevenson Memorial, The Sisters
- relative
- Richard Thornton Fisher
- student
- Margarita Pumpelly Smyth
- student of
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
Nothing in the MetaHistoryBook collection references this item yet.