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William Sidney Mount - Winding Up

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William Sidney Mount - Winding Up
Artist: William Sidney Mount - Title: Winding Up>Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 26 inches - Framed: Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 - November 19, 1868) was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by daily life from 1828 until his death in 1868 at the age of sixty. During that time he achieved fame in the U.S. and Europe as a painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting.