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Robert Loftin Newman (1827-1912)
Professions: Historical-scenes painter; Genre Painter; Landscape painter
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ROBERT LOFTIN NEWMAN American (1827-1912)
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Robert Loftin Newman (1827-1912)
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Robert Loftin Newman (1827-1912)
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Robert Loftin Newman (1827-1912, American),
Robert Loftin Newman Biography
(b Richmond, VA, 10 Nov 1827; d New York, 31 March 1912). American painter and stained-glass designer. He grew up in Clarksville, TN, where his stepfather was a tailor and his mother a milliner. In 1846 his request to be accepted as Asher B. Durand’s pupil was turned down, but Newman managed three years later to exhibit in the American Art-Union in New York. In 1850 he studied with Thomas Couture in Paris for five months. On a second trip to Paris in 1854, he visited J. F. Millet (ii) in Barbizon. He worked as a portrait painter and occasional teacher of drawing, before serving briefly as an artillery lieutenant in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he apparently remained in New York, apart from a trip to Barbizon in 1882 and to Paris in 1908.
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