Edward Mitchell Bannister

Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was an oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in Canada, he spent his adult animatronics in New England in the United States. There, along afterward his wife Christiana Carteaux Bannister, he was a prominent advocate of African-American cultural and diplomatic communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister standard national confession after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was plus a founding aficionada of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject event reflected his admiration for the French performer Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon School. A lifelong sailor, he after that looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister for ever and a day experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his run of color and atmosphere. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist past developing his better-known landscape style.

Later in his life, Bannister's style of landscape painting fell out of favor. With decreasing painting sales, he and Christiana Carteaux moved out of College Hill in Providence to Boston and after that a smaller house on Wilson Street in Providence. Bannister was overlooked in American art historical studies and exhibitions after his death in 1901, until institutions in the same way as the National Museum of African Art brought him put taking place to to national attention in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.