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Wilder M. Darling (1856-1933)
Dragon of the Imperial Guard (Empire Period)
Painting on panel.
Image size: 21 cm x 15 cm
Frame size: 26 cm x 20 cm
Wilder M. Darling is recognized as the dean of Toledo painters. He had a notable career in Europe before returning to Ohio, where he worked as a painter and teacher. Born in Sandusky, Ohio, shortly before the Civil War, he began studying art at the age of fourteen under Henry Mosler in Cincinnati in 1870.
At nineteen, he traveled to Europe with Mosler to further his studies. He studied in Munich with Frank Duveneck and at the Royal Academy, before continuing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He also benefited from the tutelage of William Merritt Chase in the United States.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Darling returned to the United States and spent two years in New York. He later settled in Toledo, near his hometown of Sandusky.
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