history 5 W's

history 5 W's

•Eel Spearing at Setauket
who: William Sidney Mount was the artist of this painting
What: represented his boyhood on the north shore of eastern Long Island.
Where: New York
When: 1845
Why: was asked by a wealthy New York lawyer to paint a picture of his childhood.
•Quincy Market
who: Alexander Parris built the actual Quincy Market. The artist who created the painting of Quincy Market is not known
What: A central market with Greek-Revival features that Bostonians used as a place to shop and trade.
Where: Boston
When: 1825-1826
Why: to give back to Boston residents in terms of civic virtue and public good.
•Portrait of Josiah Quincy
who: Gilbert Stuart was the artist of this painting
What: A painting that depicts the newly elected mayor
Where: Boston, with a view with the market in the background
When: 1824
Why:
•War News from Mexico
who: Richard Caton Woodville was the artist of this painting
What: represents an excited group, drawn to the words of an open-mouthed young man, reading aloud from the newspaper that carriers the banner “EXTRA”
Where: outside a hotel
When: 1848
Why: because the printing press was becoming very cheap, more newspapers were being created. Hence Richard painted about the newspaper to represent it as the magnetic core of pictorial composition.
•Sleeping Children
who: William Henry Rinehart was the artist of this painting
What: portrays death as a deep, restful sleep. Children look like Cupid-like infants.
Where: made the sculpture in Rome.
When: 1869
Why: commemorated the death of two children born to Hugh and Sarah Sisson to use as a gravestone.
•Longwood
who: Samuel Sloan from Philadelphia was the artist of this painting
What: A building that took the form of an octagon. It stood three stories high and had a onion-style dome at the center of it.
Where: Natchez, Mississippi
When: 1860
Why: leading phrenologist, Fowler’s created a craze for a building to be...

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