Artist
Shepard Alonzo Mount
American, 1804–1868
Shepard Alonzo Mount was an American Romanticism painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Art Institute of Chicago, most of them oil paintings.
Shepard Alonzo Mount (1804-1868) was a National Academy of Design-trained American artist during the mid-nineteenth century that painted favorable genres of realism during the time such as still-life and landscapes. He found inspiration from subjects and themes found in local areas around him. He was best known for portraiture.
Mount was highly regarded for his ability to capture a meticulously rendered likeness and personality of his portrait subjects.
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