Frank Waller (painter)

Frank Waller (12 June 1842, New York City - 9 March 1923, Morristown, NJ) was an American architect, Orientalist and landscape painter.

His father was a drygoods merchant who died even though Frank was nevertheless a boy.

From 1857 to 1861, he attended the New York Free Academy (now the City College of New York) where he studied classified ad art. During the 1860s, he was employed in that facility and painted in his spare time. In 1870, he began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design. That similar year, he undertook a study trip to Europe and spent some epoch in Rome, studying past John Gadsby Chapman, who was after that quite destitute and dependent upon support from his fellow expatriates.

He returned to New York in 1871, but left again, the enormously next year, to visit Egypt in the same way as the archives painter, Edwin White. He developed a lifelong engagement in the area; later becoming a advocate of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Always seeking to improve himself, he continued his studies, with Lemuel Wilmarth, and participated in the founding of the Art Students League of New York, visiting several art schools in Europe to report upon their methods, and serving in various administrative capacities through the 1880s. He with exhibited frequently, at the Brooklyn Art Association and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others.

After 1885, he worked as an architect and joined the Architectural League of New York. Most of his designs were for country homes, but he after that helped design the First National Bank of Cooperstown, New York. He after that travelled, producing little oil sketches of the places he visited.

In 1895, he went to bring to life in Morristown, New Jersey. After 1902, he gave occurring architecture and turned to landscape painting, which he would pursue until his death in 1923.

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