Wyatt Eaton

Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896)^[1] was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists.

Wyatt Eaton
Self portrait of Wyatt Eaton
Born	Charles Wyatt Eaton (1849-05-06)May 6, 1849 Philipsburg, Canada East
Died	June 7, 1896(1896-06-07) (aged 47) Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Education	National Academy of Design, New York City
Known for	Painter

Biography

Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Canada, Eaton was a student of the National Academy of Design, New York, studying with Samuel Colman, Daniel Huntington and others.^[1] In 1872, he moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.^[2] During this time, he made the acquaintance of Jean-François Millet at Barbizon,^[3] and was also influenced by his friend Jules Bastien-Lepage^[2][1] to believe that his art should focus on rural life.

After his return to the United States in 1876, he painted a series of portraits of American poets for the Century magazine which were engraved by Timothy Cole (Eaton`s portrait of him is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario).^[1] He became a teacher in the Cooper Institute, and opened a studio in New York City but returned to Montreal often to paint portraits.^[1] In 1880, he travelled to France and Italy.^[1] He became one of the founders of the American Art Association, later the Society of American Artists, of which he was the first secretary.^[2] He was also a founding member of the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal (1867).^[1] Eaton died from tuberculosis at Newport, Rhode Island on June 7, 1896.^[4]

Works

The Artist in His Studio (1873), the National Academy of Design

• 1868 - Study of a Classical Bust, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1869 - Study after the Antique, c. 1869, oil on paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Ann Letta Stanton Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Arthur Henry Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Farmer's Boy
• 1870 - John Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - John Carpenter Baker, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Mary Jane Baker Gilmour, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• 1870 - Lillian Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa^[5]
• 1870 - Hiram Krans, oil on canvas, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa^[5]
• 1873 - Landscape Sketch, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard –National Gallery of Canada
• 1873 - Monsieur Coclèze, c. 1873, National Gallery of Canada
• 1873 - Portrait of a Man, National Gallery of Canada
• 1875 - Reverie, view
• 1876 - Harvesters at Rest
• 1877 - Haystacks at Barbizon, etching in brown on cream laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1877 - Laure, etching on cream wove paper,National Gallery of Canada
• 1877 - Trees in the Forest of Fontainebleau, etching in brown on cream laid paper,National Gallery of Canada
• 1879 - Boy Whittling
• 1879 - Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum
• 1880 - Grandmother and Child
• 1881 - Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. W.W. Ladd Jr.?), charcoal on buff laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1884 - The Shepherdess, oil on canvas, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University^[6]
• 1884 - The Gleaner, pastel on buff laid paper, National Gallery of Canada
• 1885 - Timothy Cole, oil on canvas,^[1]
• 1888 - Ariadne, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 1889 - William T. Evans, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
• 1894 - Sir William Van Horne, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Canada
• Lassitude, view

Portraits of Wyatt Eaton

• Portrait of Wyatt Eaton, c. 1878, J. Alden Weir, oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Self-portrait, 1879 Canadian gallery of Art