Artist

David Gilmour Blythe

American, 1815–1865

David Gilmour Blythe was an American American Folk Art painter. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, most of them oil paintings. David Gilmour Blythe was born in East Liverpool.

David Gilmour Blythe (May 9, 1815 – May 15, 1865) was a self-taught American artist best known for paintings which satirically portrayed political and social situations. Blythe was also an accomplished portraitist and poet. He is widely regarded as the Pittsburgh region's pre-eminent nineteenth-century painter.

Works by David Gilmour Blythe

Collections represented

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