John William Casilear (1811 – 1893)
John William Casilear was an American landscape artist from New York. He started his career as an engraver, learning his craft under the tutelage of Peter Maverick in the 1820s. He later joined the engraver, Asher Durand and the two became firm friends, working in New York. By the middle 1830s, Durand became interested in landscape painting due to his friendship with artist, Thomas Cole and it wasn’t long before Casilear became interested in art. In 1840, Casilear, Durand, John Frederick Kensett and Thomas Prichard Rossiter, embarked on a European tour where they produced sketches and visited art museums which fed Casilear’s growing love of art. Casilear developed his landscape painting skills and painted in the style of the Hudson River School, by the mid-1850s, he had stopped engraving altogether, in favour of becoming a full-time artist.
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