William Moore Davis
William Moore Davis | |
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Self-portrait with Port Jefferson harbor | |
Born | (1829-05-22)May 22, 1829 Setauket, New York |
Died | March 26, 1920(1920-03-26) (aged 90) |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Genre, landscape, and portrait painting |
William Moore Davis (May 22, 1829 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter best known for his landscapes. A native of Long Island, he spent most of his life near Port Jefferson and has been praised as the greatest painter of that village. A contemporary of the Hudson River School, he was greatly influenced by fellow local painter William Sidney Mount.
Biography
William Moore Davis was born in Setauket, Long Island, New York, on May 22, 1829. As a boy, Davis worked in the shipbuilding industry of Port Jefferson before turning to painting full-time. Aside from a handful of years living in New York City, Moore spent his entire life in the Northwestern Brookhaven area of Long Island. He was strongly influenced by his friend and fellow painter William Sidney Mount, also of Setauket origins. Moore died on March 26, 1920, and was buried in the Sea View Cemetery in Mount Sinai, NY.
Davis had few exhibitions during his life but was rediscovered for a 1973 display in Port Jefferson and a 2002 exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook
Gallery
- Port Jefferson Harbor
- The Lady Behind the Door
- Lecture Night at the Baptist Church, Port Jefferson, 1912
- Tidal Inlet On Long Island Sound
- Wreck at Poquot Beach
- A Close Shave
- Cider Making On Long Island
References
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- Age of Enlightenment
- Romanticism
- Victorianism / Realism
- Charles Baker
- William Bliss Baker
- John Dodgson Barrow
- Susie M. Barstow
- Julie Hart Beers
- Albert Fitch Bellows
- Albert Bierstadt
- James Renwick Brevoort
- Alfred Thompson Bricher
- William Mason Brown
- Johann Hermann Carmiencke
- John William Casilear
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Thomas Cole
- Samuel Colman
- Jasper Francis Cropsey
- William Moore Davis
- Lockwood de Forest
- Thomas Doughty
- Robert S. Duncanson
- Asher Brown Durand
- Hermann Fuechsel
- Sanford Robinson Gifford
- Régis François Gignoux
- Eliza Pratt Greatorex
- Daniel Charles Grose
- James McDougal Hart
- William Hart
- William Stanley Haseltine
- Martin Johnson Heade
- Hermann Ottomar Herzog
- Thomas Hill
- Ransome Gillett Holdridge
- George Inness
- David Johnson
- John Frederick Kensett
- Robert G. L. Leonori
- Edmund Darch Lewis
- Homer Dodge Martin
- George McCord
- Jervis McEntee
- Mary Blood Mellen
- Louis Rémy Mignot
- Charles Herbert Moore
- Thomas Moran
- Evelina Mount
- William Sidney Mount
- Harriet Cany Peale
- William Trost Richards
- Ferdinand Richardt
- Thomas Prichard Rossiter
- Francis Augustus Silva
- William Louis Sonntag Sr.
- James Augustus Suydam
- Jesse Talbot
- William Guy Wall
- Mary Josephine Walters
- Paul Weber
- Robert Walter Weir
- Worthington Whittredge
- Alexander Helwig Wyant
- Among the Sierra Nevada
- The Catskills
- The Course of Empire
- The Heart of the Andes
- The Icebergs
- Kindred Spirits
- Niagara
- The Oxbow
- The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
- A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
- Twilight in the Wilderness