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Robert Wylie
WYLIE, Robert, artist, born in the Isle of Man in 1839; died in Brittany, France,
4 February, 1877. He was brought to the United States in childhood, and first
studied art at the Pennsylvania academy. In 1863 he went to France, and in 1872
he received a second-class medal at the Paris salon. His professional career was
in France, and his pictures deal mostly with the life of the Breton peasants.
His "Death of a Vendean Chief" (1876-'7) is in the Metropolitan museum, New York.
Source:
- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889
"Ragpicker and Pottery Seller"
Circa 1875
Watercolor
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