biographie de Horace Walcott ROBBINS (1842-1904)

Birth place: Mobile, AL

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC/summers in Simsbury and Farmington, CT

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: James M. Hart in NYC, 1859; Paris, 1865-66; Columbia Univ. (law), 1890; T. Rousseau, in Europe

Exhibited: NAD, 1863-94; PAFA, 1862-64; Boston Art Assoc.; Brooklyn Art Assoc., 1862-83; AIC

Member: ANA, 1864, NA, 1878; AWCS; Artists Fund Soc.; NY Sch. Applied Des. for Women (trustee); MMA (fellow)

Work: Adirondack Mus.

Comments: After graduating from a Baltimore College, he went to NYC, opening his own studio in 1860. In Connecticut he often worked with James Hart and Worthington Whittredge. He was also friends with F.E. Church and in 1864 went with him to Jamaica , then on to England, France, and Switzerland. He returned to NYC in 1867 and was on Long Island the summer of 1880. He was best known for his watercolors, but also painted in oils, including landscapes of the White Mountains. In the Adirondacks of Northern New York State, he had a studio near William Hart. In his fifties he became a lawyer.

Sources: G&W; WW04; Cowdrey, NAD; Rutledge, PA; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 153-55; Century Association, Yearbooks, 1894-04. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 134; Keene Valley: The Landscape and Its Artists; East Hampton: The 19th Century Artists' Paradise; Art in Conn.: Early Days to the Gilded Age.