biographie de Seymour Joseph GUY (1824-1910)

Birth place: Greenwich, England

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Emigrated to U.S. in 1854, settling NYC (studio in Tenth St. Studio Bldg. 1863-1910)

Profession: Genre and portrait painter

Studied: Buttersworth, Ambrosini Jerome, in England.

Exhibited: NAD, 1860-90; Brooklyn AA, 1862-80, 1887; PAFA; Boston Athenaeum; Md. Hist. Soc.; Centennial Exh., Phila., 1876; Paris Expo., 1900 (med.); Pan.-Am. Expo., Buffalo, 1901 (med.); AIC, 1901; Boston AC, 1903; St. Louis Expo., 1904 (gold).

Member: ANA, 1862; NA, 1865; Century; A. Fund. S.

Work: MMA

Comments: Successful painter of genre pictures (domestic scenes and urban waifs especially) and children's portraits.

Sources: G&W; DAB; Art Annual, XXV (1928), 391; Swan, BA; Cowdrey, NAD; Rutledge, MHS; Clement and Hutton; CAB; Graves; Rutledge, PA; WW10; Edwards Domestic Bliss, cat. nos. 39, 54, 66