1) Robert Walter Weir, born in New York City, New York, on June 18, 1803 to May 1, 1889 (aged 85), was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School.
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2) Robert never graduated from college, & he left a job as a mercantile clerk to pursue painting in 1821 at age 18. He studied art in New York City from 1822 to 1824, teaching himself drawing & painting.
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3) He departed to study in Italy in 1824. Eventually, he went to Rome, during which time he studied the works of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Italian masters of the Renaissance.
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4) He was appointed as Teacher of Drawing (1834 to 1846) then Professor of Drawing (1846 to 1876) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He was the fifth artist to be an art instructor.
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5) He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists in 1877, and he became a member of the National Academy of Design (1886) and of the Ten American Painters, New York.
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6) Exhibits at the National Academy of Design frequently included Weir’s paintings, seventeen in 1832 alone. Many were also engraved and published in ‘The Token and Atlantic Souvenir annual gift book.’
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