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 daddy was a wealthy lumber dealer who, with Charles E. Pell, founded the perfect Dannat and Pell. Later William's older brother David would succeed their daddy as a accomplice in the firm.

When Dannat was in the region of the age of twelve his parents settled to send him to Germany to extra his education. He would sophisticated 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 under Mihály Munkácsy in Paris. Dannat became an skilled draughtsman and a distinguished figure and portrait painter. He to come attracted attention taking into account 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 cutting edge 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 era his declare was mentioned next to other great American painters such as Sargent and Whistler, Dannat's popularity was more in Europe than his homeland. As he approached center age the financially secure artist began to devote more and more of his era to other interests: fencing, boxing and future automobile racing. For approximately twenty years Dannat ceased painting and behind he resumed in the region of 1913 his art had adopted a more surrealistic style bearing in mind illusionary landscapes and bizarre themes. During his hiatus from painting Dannat spent much of his become old touring Europe studying the techniques of the great masters while long-lasting active in artistic circles in Paris where he served at one grow old as the president of the Society of American Painters.

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