| Show artists artist who were once sign painters painter there are not a few instances of sign painters abandoning 0 their craft tor for a higher sphere in art and of american artists especially a number have begun in this humble line henry smith mount a brother of the more talented william sidney mount though a sign painter executed some creditable pieces 0 of still life and became an A N A in 1832 W S mount fu fust first st associated with his brother showed a capacity for a higher order of art he was 0 one n e of our earlier genre painters devoting himself mainly to depicting the humorous hurn orous side of american rustic rusti C life francis A silva and arthur Qa Q uart artley ley the marine painters now yead tead began their careers as sign painters so did william mcgrath the clever genre painter who of late has been painting subjects a la laalda alma tadema worthington I 1 and william louis 59 both now well known as landscape painters were painting signs together in cincinnati a little more than forty years ago new york times |
