Robert Walter Weir
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Robert Walter Weir was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the U
Robert Walter Weir, circa 1864
The Entrance To A Wood (1836), watercolor and graphite on paper, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The Greenwich Boat Club, 1833, Princeton University Art Museum
Embarkation of the Pilgrims (commissioned 1837; placed 1844), oil on canvas, 12 x 18 feet, United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC
The United States Capitol building features a central rotunda below the Capitol dome. Built between 1818 and 1824, the rotunda has been described as the Capitol's "symbolic and physical heart".
Robert Walter Weir
…School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. More than 450 of his works are known, and he created many unsigned paintings that may never…
The U.S. Capitol rotunda viewed from behind a copy of the Statue of George Washington in 2005
The Capitol dome topped by the Statue of Freedom
Frieze of American History in the Capitol rotunda
Many large paintings are exhibited in the rotunda