Wilton Lockwood

Wilton Lockwood (September 12, 1861 – March 21, 1914, age 52) was an American artiste born in Wilton, Connecticut.

Lockwood was born in Wilton, Connecticut to Emily Middlebrook and John L Lockwood. He was a pupil and an accomplice of John La Farge, and in addition to studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower painter. He became a fanatic of both the Society of American Artists (1898) and the Copley Society of Art in Boston, as capably as an belong to and, in 1912, member of the National Academy of Design in New York. He painted portraits of Grover Cleveland, John La Farge and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..

Lockwood died in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Works by him are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Worcester Art Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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