John Ward Dunsmore

John Ward Dunsmore studied at Art Academy of Cincinnati. Training under Thomas Couture, Thomas Satterwhite Noble and Aimé Millet is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is arts, arts administration and visual art education. Places of work recorded in the authority are Detroit, Boston and Paris. Employment is recorded with Detroit Museum of Art School and Detroit Museum of Art. Positions recorded include museum director. Works named in the authority record are Armand H. Griffith Records, 1883-1913 and John Ward Dunsmore Records 1888-1891. Work by John Ward Dunsmore is recorded in the collections of Detroit Institute of Arts, National Portrait Gallery, New York Historical and Cincinnati Art Museum.

• Illustration — Signing the Treaty with the Indians April 22, 1642, a 1908 portrait by Dunsore Dunsmore was in Paris from 1875 to 1879, where he studied at the Petite Ecole with Aimée Millet and privately with Thomas Couture. In 1879, Dunsmore drew a deathbed portrait of Couture. Dunsmore painted a number of murals depicting various scenes from the American Revolution for Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan. His works are known for their exacting painstakingly researched historical detail and for the elaborate staging and dressings of models the artist produced in his studio. His painting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart titled Mozart was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. Works by Dunsmore are in the permanent collections of among other institutions and venues the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., The Fraunces Tavern Museum, and the New York Historical Society. Dunsmore's was president of the Cincinnati Art Club from 1899 to 1902.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1856 at Oxford. It is also recorded that john Ward Dunsmore died in 1945 at Dover.