Group of Figures
Robert W. Weir
early 19th century
Medium
charcoal on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 17.15 × 23.81 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.724
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Robert W. Weir
**Robert Walter Weir (1803–1889)** was a prominent American painter, educator, and key figure in the Hudson River School. Born in New York City on June 18, 1803, to Robert and Mary Katherine Brinckley Weir, he initially pursued a mercantile career before dedicating himself to art at age 18. Largely self-taught in his early years, Weir studied drawing and painting in New York from 1822 to 1824. He ...