Henry Walton (American painter)

This article is about the American painter and lithographer. For the English painter (1746–1813), see Henry Walton (English painter). For other uses, see Henry Walton.
A Miner in His Cabin, Henry Walton, ca. 1853, California

Henry Walton (1804–1865) was an American painter and lithographer active chiefly in Ithaca, New York and California.

Walton was born in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1804, the son. of Judge Henry Walton and Mathilda (Cruger) Yates. His early works include lithographs of scenes from Saratoga Springs, Flat Rock Spring and the Pavilion Hotel.

He moved to Ithaca before 1836, where he is believed to be working for a company republishing David Burr's 1829 Atlas of New York State. He produced both portraits and landscapes including View of Geneva (1837), Henry Clay (1844), Lithographic View of Jefferson (1847) (Jefferson is now Watkins Glen), and oil paintings of Addison (1850) and Painted Post (1851).

In 1840, during his stay in Ithaca, he was involved in a dispute over a portrait of William Henry Harrison, which political opponents claimed was actually a portrait of Andrew Jackson over which Walton had written the name Harrison.

In 1851 he joined the California Gold Rush, arriving in San Francisco on the steamer Oregon. In California he continued producing artistic works such as the watercolor View of Grass Valley (1857),[1] and presumably other works which have been lost.

In 1857 he moved to Michigan, where he died in Cassopolis 1865. His wife Jane Orr died there in 1890. There is no record of children.[2]

References

  1. ↑ View of Grass Valley, Smithsonian collection
  2. ↑ Rehner, Leigh (1969). "Henry Walton: An Early Artist" (PDF). DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County. Retrieved May 24, 2013.

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