JAMES EDWARD BUTTERSWORTH

American, 1817–1894

BIOGRAPHY
James Edward Buttersworth was probably the son and pupil of Thomas Buttersworth, a painter of sea battles. He emigrated to the USA and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey. He also kept a studio in Brooklyn. From 1850 to 1852 he showed work in the exhibitions of the American Art Union of New York. He specialized in seascapes and painted boats in meticulous detail. In 1994 the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago organized a retrospective of his works, Ship, Sea and Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Butterworth.

Museum Collections:
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Smithsonian Museum of American Art and Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad (Gosudarstvennyj Russkij Muz.), St. Petersburg
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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