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William Sidney Mount

36 works

William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) was a painter. Read more

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Farm scene of cider making with a thatched press, a horse-powered mill, barrels, workers, a woman in a red shawl and animals.

Cider Making

1840-41

Painting of a fiddler playing in a barn while men listen, with a man leaning in the open doorway holding a hat.

The Power of Music

1847

Oval 1852 painting of an elderly seated man with a cane and three children beside a marble table with a bust.

Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution - A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

1852

Painting of a clapboard farmhouse beside a bare tree under a stormy sky, with a split-rail fence and figures near the door.

Long Island Farmhouses

1862-63

Men in period coats and hats gather around a plucked goose on a table in a rustic barn interior.

The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose)

1837

Men recoil in a dark cave as a woman gestures toward a glowing white-robed ghost, with lightning in the sky beyond.

Saul and the Witch of Endor

1820

Painting of men in a tavern: one dances holding a mug while others sit and watch on a wooden floor.

Bar-room Scene

1835

Three men in a country tavern by a wood stove, one bandaged and gesturing, another smoking a pipe, painted in 1837.

The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern

1837

Genre painting of three men in a tavern by a wood stove, one bandaged and gesturing, one smoking a pipe.

The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern

1837

Oil portrait of a young girl with curled dark hair in a white blouse and red shawl, with a sailboat on the sea behind her.

Portrait of Maria Seabury

1846

Oil portrait of a young woman with curled hair, white blouse and red shawl, set before a hazy mountain landscape.

Portrait of Julia Ann Seabury

1846

Oil painting of three boys in a field under trees, one asleep, as an older man with a cane looks on toward a distant lake.

Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field)

1848

Woman in red dress winding yarn from a seated man's hands in a rustic wooden interior, painted in 1836.

Winding Up

1836

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a black coat and white shirt against a warm, shadowed background.

Portrait of Laertes Chapin

1833

Oil portrait of a young woman with ringlet curls, lace headpiece, black dress and white collar, against a dark background.

Portrait of Laura Colton Chapin

1833

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat sitting and drawing in an open field with a lone tree, by William Sidney Mount, 1840.

Artist Sketching at Stony Brook, New York (from McGuire Scrapbook)

1840

Pencil sketch of two seated men, one tuning a violin, with a standing woman and a landscape through a doorway.

Tuning

1867

Pencil sketch of two men at a water pump beside a wooden fence, with a chicken and trees in the background.

At the Pump

1861

Pencil sketch of men playing music in a rustic interior, with a woman in a doorway and handwritten notes.

Catching a Tune

probably 1867

Pencil sketch of a man in a hat leaning on a wooden gate beside a barn, dated February 15, 1867.

Resting on the Fence

1867

Pencil sketch of four men in loose outlines, one central figure leaning forward mid-step, with handwritten date and signature

The Jig

c. 1866

Pencil sketch of two men beside a grindstone in a rustic interior, one in a wide-brimmed hat gesturing, with a hat on the flo

Who'll Turn the Grindstone?

c. 1850

Pencil sketch of a lecture room with a standing speaker, a plaster head on a table, and a seated audience.

The Phrenologist

c. 1827-68

Pencil sketch of two men bending over a grinding wheel, one sharpening a tool while the other leans in to help.

Grinding the Axe

c. 1827-68

Pencil sketch of two men spearing eels from a punt in shallow water, with reeds and a sailboat in the distance.

Eel Spearing at Setauket, Long Island, New York

c. 1845

Pencil sketch of three seated men in hats bent over an instrument, with faint handwriting in the background.

Tuning

1822-68

The Fiddling Beggar

1853

Pencil sketch of dancing and seated figures below rows of songbird studies with handwritten plumage notes.

Dance of the Haymakers

c. 1845

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a cap holding a pipe, leaning on a wooden chair.

Man Smoking a Pipe

c. 1827-68

Pencil sketch of several sailing boats on calm water along a distant shoreline, with an inscription below reading On Board of

On Board of the Stony Brook Packet

1848

Pencil portrait of a man with curled hair and a dark bow tie, signed by William Sidney Mount and dated 1839.

Nelson Mathewson

1839

Graphite sketch of a young man with tousled hair writing with a quill pen at a desk beside an inkwell.

Shepard Alonzo Mount, Age Twenty-Three [recto]

1827

William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) was a painter. The work of William Sidney Mount is associated with Hudson River school. Browse 36 works by William Sidney Mount from 9 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikidata