14 Facts About Lemuel Wilmarth

Lemuel Wilmarth was a founder of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the National Academy of Design.

Lemuel Wilmarth was professor in charge of the schools of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan from 1870 to 1890.

Lemuel Wilmarth was among America's most respected teachers of art during the later nineteenth century.

Lemuel Wilmarth was born in Attleboro, MA, the son of Benoni Wilmarth and Fanny Fuller.

Lemuel Wilmarth went to Europe in 1858 and studied at the Royal Academy at Munich for three and a half years under Wilhelm von Kaulbach and at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris for two and a half years under Jean-Leon Gerome.

Lemuel Wilmarth was married to Emma Belinda Barrett, daughter of William Barrett of Essex, England, in 1872.

On Guard is one of two known versions of this scene; Wilmarth gave the other, Left in Charge, to the National Academy of Design.

Lemuel Wilmarth taught many art students, including Thomas Pollock Anshutz, James Carroll Beckwith, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Stuart Church, Louise Cox, Xantippe Saunders, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Harry Chase and Robert Koehler.

Lemuel Wilmarth was a great influence to his grand-niece Alice Wilmarth Busing, a painter proficient in oils, pastels, and watercolor.

Lemuel Wilmarth began his teaching career in New York in 1867 at the Brooklyn Academy of Design.

Lemuel Wilmarth hosted the first meeting in his studio and offered to teach the life classes for free until the league could afford to pay him.

Lemuel Wilmarth stayed on as the League's first president for the League's first two years, but when the National Academy reopened, he resigned from the League and returned to his position at the academy.

Lemuel Wilmarth was prominent as a worker in the Swedenborgian denomination, and was a member of the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem.

Lemuel Wilmarth had written considerably on religious and social subjects, and was one of the founders of the New Earth, a Swedenborgian publication, in 1872, and was afterward its editor for several years.