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Wesley Webber, American 1841-1914 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1900: item # 968310
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| Oil on canvas, on the original stretcher, unlined. Signed lower right. Bio from Ask art.com: Wesley Webber was born in Gardiner, Maine and became interested in art at an early age. About 1858 he went to Boston and was apprenticed for three years to J.C. Roberts of Haymarket Square, an ornamental sign and carriage painter. Webber entered the Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment in July 1862 and was reportedly the only artist on hand at the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomattox. He produces sketches of the surrender that were later published as lithographs in Harper's Weekly. He continued to paint scenes from the Civil War throughout his career. Webber exhibited frequently at the Boston Art Club, the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute, Boston, and at the National Academy of Design, New York, and the Brooklyn Academy, Brooklyn, and the Peabody Museum, Salem, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Webber maintained a studio in Boston from 1870 to 1889, and by 1892 he moved his studio to New York City. | ||
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