Skip to main contentBiographyCharles Loring Elliott was born in Auburn, New York, in 1812. He spent much time in his youth in his father’s workshop, and consequently became skilled in small-scale construction and drawing. When he went to school, he studied drawing from pictures until he was fifteen, at which point his family moved to Syracuse and he began working with his father at a grocery store. He continued to draw construction plans for his father, however, and eventually his father gave him his blessing to go to New York City to study painting.
Elliott later returned to upstate New York, where he received a number of portrait commissions, many of which were of Hamilton College employees. He went back to New York City, and was elected to the National Academy of Design, which helped him gain popularity. He was said to have painted over seven hundred portraits, along with some figural and landscape paintings. Some claim he was the best portraitist of his day.
Many of his works went to private collections, but those which did not now hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York State Library, and New York City Hall.
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Charles Loring Elliott
American, 1812 - 1868
Elliott later returned to upstate New York, where he received a number of portrait commissions, many of which were of Hamilton College employees. He went back to New York City, and was elected to the National Academy of Design, which helped him gain popularity. He was said to have painted over seven hundred portraits, along with some figural and landscape paintings. Some claim he was the best portraitist of his day.
Many of his works went to private collections, but those which did not now hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York State Library, and New York City Hall.
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