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William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount

American, 1807-1868
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William Sidney Mount was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by daily life from 1828 until his death in 1868 at the age of sixty. During that time he achieved fame in the U.S. and Europe as a painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting.
Mount was also passionate about music and a fiddle player, a composer and collector of songs, and designed and patented several versions of his own violin which he named the "Cradle of Harmony". Many of his paintings also feature musicians and groups of people engaged in dance in rural settings. The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages owns the largest repository of Mount artwork and archival material, and regularly exhibits his paintings.

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After Dinner

After Dinner (1834)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Portrait of William Wickham Mills Smith

Portrait of William Wickham Mills Smith (1849)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
The Banjo Player

The Banjo Player (between 1850 and 1855)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Gideon Tucker

Gideon Tucker (1830)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
Great-Grand-Father’s Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

Great-Grand-Father’s Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene (1852)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Mrs. Gideon Tucker

Mrs. Gideon Tucker (1830)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
Long Island Farmhouses

Long Island Farmhouses (1862–63)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Landscape
The Trap Sprung

The Trap Sprung (1844)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
Saul and the Witch of Endor

Saul and the Witch of Endor (1828)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Religion
Winding Up

Winding Up

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field)

Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Cider Making

Cider Making (1840–41)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Landscape
The Tough Story – Scene in a Country Tavern

The Tough Story – Scene in a Country Tavern (1837)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose)

The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) (1837)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
The Power of Music

The Power of Music (1847)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Figurative
Bar-room Scene

Bar-room Scene (1835)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Eel Spearing at Setauket, Long Island, New York

Eel Spearing at Setauket, Long Island, New York (c. 1845)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Tuning

Tuning

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Tuning

Tuning (1867)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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Resting on the Fence

Resting on the Fence (1867)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
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At the Pump

At the Pump (1861)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Reviving

Reviving

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Who’ll Turn the Grindstone?

Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? (c. 1850)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
The Jig

The Jig (c. 1866)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Man Smoking a Pipe

Man Smoking a Pipe

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Catching a Tune

Catching a Tune (probably 1867)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Man Smoking a Pipe

Man Smoking a Pipe

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Dance of the Haymakers

Dance of the Haymakers (c. 1845)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
Grinding the Axe

Grinding the Axe

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
The Fiddling Beggar

The Fiddling Beggar (1853)

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868)
Drawings
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