Julian Alden Weir: A collection of 158 paintings (HD)

Julian Alden Weir: A collection of 158 paintings (HD) Description: “Although best known today as an American Impressionist, Julian Alden Weir had a long and varied career. He received his earliest artistic education from his father Robert Weir (1803-1889) who was a professor of drawing at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for forty-four years. Young Weir was born there on 30 August 1852. Weir’s elder brother, John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926), was also an artist and served as Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University. As a young man Julian studied at the National Academy of Design for three years. In 1873 he traveled to France where he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts and worked under Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). It was about this time, partly in gratitude to Mrs. Bradford Alden, the family friend who sponsored his trip, that the artist began to use only his first initial rather than his given name Julian. Through his European travels, particularly to Holland and Spain, We