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19th/20th-century American painter

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century.

Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women.

At his best Dewing feels safe, comfortable, and suitably rich, especially when he lets his deep reds and blues invade.

At his best Dewing feels safe, comfortable, and suitably rich, especially when he lets his deep reds and blues invade.

I admit that, prior to my recent visit to New Haven, I'd never heard of the Boston-born painter Thomas Wilmer Dewing.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, – November 5, ) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing () was an American Realistic painter.

Born in Boston and apprenticed in his teens to a lithographer, Dewing settled in New York in after a year of study at the Academie Julian.

He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works.^[1] He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

Personal life and education

Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Sophronia Durant and Paul Dewing, and served as a lithographic apprentice until at least 1870 when he was 19 years old.^[2] He later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

"There he learned an academic technique; the careful delineation of volumetric form and meticulous but subtle evocation of texture