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Marcus (sometimes Mark) Waterman (September 1, 1834 – April 2, 1914) was an American painter, mainly of landscapes and Orientalist subjects. ==Life== Waterman was born in Providence, Rhode Island to William Henry and Martha Burrill Pearce Waterman; he had a brother, William Clarence Waterman, who survived him. He graduated from Brown University in 1857 and moved to New York, where for twenty years he kept a studio in the New York University building.〔 His training is unclear; some sources claim that he was entirely self-taught,〔 while others, including Waterman himself, claim that he either worked with or was influenced by Thomas Hill and William Morris Hunt.〔 Before moving to New York he was part of a group of "art enthusiasts" in Providence, including Thomas Robinson, John N. Arnold, James M. Lewin, and Frederick S. Batcheller;〔 Robinson would go on to be a friend of his for many years.〔 Waterman is known to have attended a life drawing class at the National Academy of Design during the 1858–1859 academic year. In the former year he began exhibiting at the Academy as well, a habit which he kept up as long as he lived in the city.〔 Early on he chose to specialize in landscape painting, and many of the pictures he showed at the Academy were in this vein.〔 He was elected an associate of the Academy in 1861.〔 In 1874 Waterman accompanied a group of painters including Hunt on a sketching trip along the Massachusetts coast, and as a result resettled in Boston,〔 where he would remain until moving to Italy.〔 He spent much time traveling in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s; among his destinations were the Netherlands, France, southern Spain, and North Africa.〔 Visiting Algiers was a revelation to the artist, and he said in an 1894 interview that "for the first time he felt at home".〔 Having first visited in 1879, he returned there a second time, staying between 1884 and 1886.〔 He continued depicting American subjects as well, favoring the beaches of Cape Cod and the mountains of Vermont.〔 Waterman married an Italian woman, and in the first decade of the twentieth century he relocated there with her;〔 he died in Italy, in Madero,〔 and is buried in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence. Waterman was described after his death as a man of broad intellect and a deep thinker, something of a philosopher; he was said to hold the average American art buyer in contempt, and was well-off enough to enjoy the art of painting for itself, rather than for any pecuniary reasons.〔 He was a member of the Paint and Clay Club of Boston, of the American Watercolor Society, and the Artists Fund Society.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcus Waterman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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