Mount, William Sidney

Mount, William Sidney
born Nov. 26, 1807, Setauket, N.Y., U.S.
died Nov. 19, 1868, Setauket

U.S. painter.

He was apprenticed at 17 to his older brother as a sign painter. After studying drawing at the National Academy of Design, he painted historical subjects, but he later turned to genre painting and achieved immediate success with such works as Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride (1830). His portrayals of country life, affectionate and humorous without being sentimental, are a valuable record of his time. He was one of the first and most notable U.S. genre painters.

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▪ American painter
born November 26, 1807, Setauket, Long Island, New York, U.S.
died November 19, 1868, Setauket

      American genre painter who mainly depicted rustic life in his native Long Island. He was one of the first and best 19th-century anecdotal painters in the United States.

      A farm boy until age 17, Mount apprenticed himself to his older brother Henry, a sign painter working in New York City. They were joined by another brother, Shepard Alonzo, who eventually became a portrait painter. In 1826, when the National Academy of Design opened drawing classes, Mount was one of its first students and was elected an associate member in 1831 (he became a full member in 1832). He stayed only a year before returning to Setauket, where he continued painting and sending work to be exhibited in New York, where it received great acclaim.

 Although Mount began his career by painting historical subjects, soon after returning to Setauket he began to explore the social manners and rituals of rural life in his work, an approach known as genre painting. His first genre painting, The Rustic Dance (1830), was an immediate success, and Mount never departed from this vein. He did not sentimentalize his scenes but rather portrayed his subjects with naturalness and simplicity. His paintings often commented on American social and political issues, as seen in his exploration of temperance and the abolition of slavery in Bar-room Scene (1835). The recognizable situations and detailed, representational character of Mount's paintings struck a responsive chord in Victorian America and now serve as a valuable record of a bygone, agrarian age.

Additional Reading
Alfred Frankenstein, Painter of Rural America: William Sydney Mount, 1807–1868 (1968), accompanied the first major retrospective on Mount. Alfred Frankenstein, William Sydney Mount (1975), is the first monograph on the artist and tells Mount's story through selections from his diaries, account books, and letters. Deborah J. Johnson, William Sydney Mount: Painter of American Life (1998), brings together scholarly essays by several experts to explore issues of patronage, reception, and the mass marketing of the artist's works.

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