Charles Grant Beauregard

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Charles Grant Beauregard - Cows watering by a stream

Charles Grant Beauregard (born August 1857 in New York State , † 1919 in Troy , New York ) was an American painter.

life and work

Beauregard, whose parents John and Margaret Beauregard were immigrants from Canada, taught in Troy at the Emma Willard Private School .

While he was initially concerned with portrait painting, he later turned to still lifes . But his pastoral landscape paintings are also known, the motif of which is often groups of trees on rivers with cows. He was strongly influenced by the painting style of the American painter John La Farge and the Hudson River School .

literature

  • For Beauty and For Truth; The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life; ISBN 091433719X
  • Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art (1999), 3 vols., ISBN 9780932087577

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The often given place of birth Montreal is wrong. See https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSD1-YHN
  2. ↑ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZFC-PCY
personal data
SURNAME Beauregard, Charles Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Troy , New York