C L A R K P O I N T G A L L E R Y
19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY PAINTINGS OF MAINE AND MOUNT DESERT ISLAND
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William M. Hart 1823 – 1894 William Hart was born in 1832 in Paisley, Scotland. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1831; they settled in Albany, New York. He was a self-taught artist and was painting portraits by the time he was 18. Around 1840, he left home and traveled around the country painting, including Richmond, VA and Michigan. After 7 years of traveling, he returned home to Albany, where he opened a studio and taught. In 1854, he moved to New York City, then Brooklyn where he was the first president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design. Hart primarily painted Hudson River School landscapes but he also did a number of small, dramatic seascapes of the coast of Maine as seen from Grand Manan Island. He spent the last years of his life in Mount Vernon, NY.
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