William Turner Dannat

William Turner Dannat (July 9, 1853 – March 12, 1929) was an American player known especially for paintings of Spanish subject matter.

William T. Dannat was born in 1853 at Hempstead, New York the younger of two boys raised by William H. and Susan (née Jones) Dannat. His father was a rich lumber dealer who, with Charles E. Pell, founded the unquestionable Dannat and Pell. Later William's older brother David would succeed their father as a partner in crime in the firm.

When Dannat was as regards the age of twelve his parents arranged to send him to Germany to new his education. He would superior study architecture at Hanover and Stuttgart since choosing instead to become an artist. Dannat attended art classes at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts and later below Mihály Munkácsy in Paris. Dannat became an able draughtsman and a distinguished figure and portrait painter. He upfront attracted attention next sketches and pictures made in Spain. A large composition, The Quatuor Espagnol, that was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was one of the successes of the Paris Salon of 1884. Dannat far ahead settled in Paris, where he taught at the Académie Julian. He was influenced by a number of masters including Carolus Duran and Munkácsy, though more by the latter as can be observed in his paintings Contrebandier Aragonais and Quatuor Espagnol.

Though at one mature his publicize was mentioned closely other great American painters such as Sargent and Whistler, Dannat's popularity was more in Europe than his homeland. As he approached middle age the financially safe artist began to devote more and more of his era to supplementary interests: fencing, boxing and well ahead automobile racing. For approximately twenty years Dannat ceased painting and taking into account he resumed not far off from 1913 his art had adopted a more surrealistic style once illusionary landscapes and bizarre themes. During his hiatus from painting Dannat spent much of his epoch touring Europe studying the techniques of the good masters while remaining active in artistic circles in Paris where he served at one period as the president of the Society of American Painters.

William Turner Dannat died in 1929, aged 75, while at Monte Carlo.