Winckworth Allan Gay

Winckworth Allan Gay
'Grez-sur-Loing' painting by Winckworth Allan Gay
BornAugust 18, 1821
DiedFebruary 23, 1910 (aged 88)
West Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationRobert Walter Weir, Westpoint, Mass; Constant Troyon, Paris
Known forPainting
MovementOrientalist; Barbizon school
Hudson River School

Winckworth Allan Gay (1821–1910) was an American landscape artist and was one of the first American artists to promote the Barbizon style of pastoral landscape painting. He studied art in the United States, including West Point and then France and the far east, and came to produce many landscapes during his extended tours of these places. Gay produced many works during his life time, all the way up to his last few final years.