Alfred Wordsworth Thompson - Old Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, in the Time of Lord Dunmore [1893]

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson - Old Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, in the Time of Lord Dunmore [1893], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

History painter Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (Baltimore, Maryland, 1840 - Summit, New Jersey, 1896) studied at Newton University. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson was an artist for the Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly, interested in events in Virginia. But his interest was apparently not very strong, for, in 1861, he went to Paris to study art, eventually at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1864, exhibiting at the Salon of 1865.

[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 68.9 cm]