Walter M. Brackett

Henry Dearborn , painted by Brackett

Trout , oil on canvas, 1867, Brooklyn Museum

Walter M. Brackett (born June 14, 1823 in Unity , Maine , USA, † March 8, 1919 in Boston ) was an American painter.

Life

Walter M. Brackett was the younger brother of the sculptor Edward A. Brackett (1818-1908). He came to art as an autodidact .

Walter M. Brackett spent most of his career in Boston, Massachusetts , where he lived from 1843. He founded the Boston Art Club, of which he was a first president. His work has been exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and the National Academy of Design. At first he mainly painted portraits in oil , among others of Timothy Pickering , Samuel Dexter , William Eustis and Henry Dearborn , all of whom were prominent residents of Maine.

Brackett later turned from portraiture to depicting fish, fishing and still life hunting. He achieved international fame in 1851 through an exhibition at the Crystal Palace , where he showed a series of fish catches consisting of four pictures. At the world exhibitions in 1873 and 1876 he was awarded medals.

In 1898, he was hired to repaint the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts , a three-foot wood carving hanging in the Massachusetts House of Representatives depicting a cod .

literature

Edmund von Mach : Brackett, Walter M. In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 504 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Kristiane Frank: Brackett, Walter M. . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , p. 515.

Web links

Commons : Walter M. Brackett - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Committee of the House (ed.): A History of the Emblem of the Codfish in the Hall of the House of Representatives. - Internet Archive Wright and Potter Printing, Boston 1895.

personal data
SURNAME	Brackett, Walter M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unity , Maine , USA
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1919
Place of death	Boston

[1] Committee of the House (ed.): A History of the Emblem of the Codfish in the Hall of the House of Representatives. - Internet Archive Wright and Potter Printing, Boston 1895.