William Holbrook Beard

William Holbrook Beard ( born April 13, 1823 in Painesville, Ohio, † February 20, 1900 in New York City ) was an American painter of animals.

Life

Beard began his career as a wandering portrait painter and settled in 1850 for a few years in Buffalo down. In 1857 he went to Europe, practiced his art in Rome, in Switzerland and in Germany. Between 1857 and 1858 he lived in Dusseldorf. In 1860 he moved to New York, where he became in 1862 a member of the National Academy of Design. Here he devoted himself, like his brother, James Beard, the depiction of monkeys and bears, often in a humorous and satirical way. Examples of his work are The Bear Dance, Cats and Dogs, The naughty boy and in recent years the coming spring, The Horse Market ( both 1875), The Dance Lesson (1877 ), The old Silenus and 1878 at the Paris Exhibition The castaways.

1879 was his painting The Bulls and Bears in the Market, with a description of the scenes in front of the New York Stock Exchange, which is owned by the New York Historical Society today.