Alexander Helwig Wyant
American, 1836 - 1892
Person TypeIndividual
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- male
BiographyBorn near Port Washington, Ohio on January 11, 1836, Wyant first worked in the 1850s as an itinerant landscape painter around the Ohio River. He later studied with painter Hans Gude in Germany. After losing the use of his right arm as the result of a stroke in 1873, he began to paint with his left hand. His later landscapes have looser brushwork. Late in his career, he was associated with the development of Tonalism and his work was influential on younger artists working in the style. He died in New York on November 11, 1892.