Biografie von Henry Livingston HILLYER (1840-1886)

Birth place: Utica, OH

Death place: Grand Rapids, MI

Addresses: Jersey City, NJ, active 1859-68; Georgia; Wash., DC; Grand Rapids, MI, 1881; Florida, 1885

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Aaron Shattuck, at NY Univ.

Exhibited: NAD (1859-1868); Brooklyn AA; Centennial Expo. of 1876

Member: Wash. AC (vice-pres.)

Work: Hist. Soc. of Wash., DC (oil painting of Prov. Hospital); Wash. County Mus. of FA, Hagerstown, MD (oils and watercolors)

Comments: After 1865 he was listed as in business with his father and brother as a commission merchant in NYC. He still, however, exhibited at the NAD through 1868.

Sources: G&W; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Jersey City CD 1861-67. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 87; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.