Henry Oliver Walker

• Name — Henry Oliver Walker • Born — 14 May 1843 • Birthplace — Boston, Massachusetts, US • Died — 14 January 1929 • Place of death — Belmont, Massachusetts, US • Education — École des Beaux-Arts

Walker was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1879, he went Paris, France to study painting under Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts. After returning to the United States in 1882, he lived for a few years in Boston, then moved to New York and set up a studio there. In 1884, Walker exhibited two portraits at the Boston Art Club, and in 1885 he exhibited another portrait. In 1888, at the suggestion of Thomas Dewing, he established a studio in Cornish, New Hampshire. In Cornish he was part of the Cornish Art Colony that included such artists as Dewing, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Maxfield Parrish, Louis St. Gaudens, Charles A. Platt, and Kenyon Cox. In 1888 he married Laura Marquand, a textile designer and decorative artist. He became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1902. Walker died in Belmont, Massachusetts.

• Illustration — Portrait of an Unknown Bearded Gentleman. Oil on canvas, 1886 • Illustration — Detail from Laura Marquand, future wife of the artist, c. 1887 • Illustration — Lyric Poetry (1896), Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Ganymede (1896), Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Adonis (1896), Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C • Illustration — Narcissus (1890s), Museum of Fine Arts Boston • Illustration — Musa Regina (1905), Smithsonian American Art Museum