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Artist in the Global Art Registry
William Sidney Mount
1807–1868 · American
- Born
- 1807 · Long Island
- Died
- 1868 · Long Island
30 works in the Collect24 Registry
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William Sidney Mount was a 19th-century American genre painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting, and also designed and patented several versions of his own violin.
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William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket, New York in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by daily life from the 1820s until his death in 1868 at the age of sixty. During that time he achieved fame in the U.S. and Europe as a painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting. Mount was also passionate about music and a fiddle player, a composer and collector of songs, symphonies, sonatas and other works, and designed and patented several versions of his own violin which he named the "Cradle of Harmony." Many of his paintings also feature musicians and groups of people engaged in dance in rural settings.
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Registered works
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Featured works
Selected registered works by William Sidney Mount
Selected from 30 works by William Sidney Mount in the Collect24 Registry.
William Sidney Mount
Tuning, 1867
graphite
9.7 × 16.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-1103183
William Sidney Mount
Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1828
oil on canvas
91.3 × 122 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-132905
William Sidney Mount
The Power of Music, 1847
oil on canvas
43.4 × 53.5 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-109007
William Sidney Mount
Mill Hill, 1840
Graphite on light buff-colored wove paper
12.1 × 20.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-938017
William Sidney Mount
Catching a Tune, probably 1867
graphite
10 × 15.4 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-220986
William Sidney Mount
Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene, 1852
Oil on canvas
61 × 50.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-138829
William Sidney Mount
The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose), 1837
Oil on mahogany
43.2 × 58.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-138800
William Sidney Mount
Mrs. Gideon Tucker, 1830
Oil on canvas
86.7 × 68.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-138319
William Sidney Mount
Gideon Tucker, 1830
Oil on canvas
86.7 × 68.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-137906
William Sidney Mount
Martin Euclid Thompson, 1830
Oil on canvas
75.6 × 62.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-137681
William Sidney Mount
Cider Making, 1840–41
Oil on canvas
68.6 × 86.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-136868
William Sidney Mount
Long Island Farmhouses, 1862–63
Oil on canvas
55.6 × 75.9 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-103558
Museums and collections
Where works by William Sidney Mount are registered
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
17 works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
10 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
1 work
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
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