George Peter Alexander Healy

(1813–1894) amerikansk konstnär

George Peter Alexander Healy (USA, 1813–1894) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, George Peter Alexander Healy belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

George Peter Alexander Healy was born in Boston and died in Chicago. George Peter Alexander Healy worked in Paris, Rome, Chicago, and Boston. Wikidata associates George Peter Alexander Healy with realism. George Peter Alexander Healy became a member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

The best-known works include ‘Abraham Lincoln’, ‘The Peacemakers’, ‘Webster Replying to Hayne’, and ‘Arch of Titus’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting, portrait, and history painting. The catalogue has 84 works by George Peter Alexander Healy with free images. The dated works span the years 1832–1887. Works by George Peter Alexander Healy are held by several collections, among them National Portrait Gallery, New York Historical, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include George Caleb Bingham, William Page, John William Casilear, Thomas Gold Appleton, and Charles Girardet.

• Romanticism
• The Peacemakers
• Abraham Lincoln