Painter · American
Attested lodger
Thomas Buford Meteyard
The painter of Giverny by night: his church by moonlight is at the Vernon museum.
- Dates1865 — 1928
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthRock Island, Illinois, United States
Biography
Thomas Buford Meteyard was born at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1865. He lived on both sides of the Atlantic — England, France, Massachusetts, Switzerland — and became close to Edvard Munch and Stéphane Mallarmé. His death date is unsettled: the National Gallery of Art gives 1928, the Metropolitan Museum gives 1950, at Glion in the canton of Vaud. This site gives 1928 without considering the matter closed. His death, long given as either 1928 or 1950, is settled by Carol Lowrey: 1928, at Territet, Switzerland.
Giverny
Between 1890 and 1893 he often worked at Giverny, where he was John Leslie Breck’s friend, and painted like him a series of haystacks after Monet. He stands out for the variations of light at night: he is one of the few painters of the colony to have worked after sunset.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
Four stays, one of them a whole winter. 21 to 31 July 1891. Then 5 September 1891 to 20 February 1892 — five and a half months, through the bad season. 20 April to 8 September 1892. And 22 April to 23 June 1893.
Principal works
Key points
- 1865Born — Rock Island, Illinois, United States
- Giverny1890 — 1893
- 1928Died
Sources
- 01Giverny News, “Thomas Buford Meteyard”
- 02National Gallery of Art, Thomas Buford Meteyard (1865–1928)
- 03The Metropolitan Museum of Art, giving 1865–1950
- 04Terra Foundation for American Art, “Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France, 1885–1915”, exhibition texts
- 05Hôtel Baudy guest register, “Registre pour inscrire les voyageurs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art; transcribed by Carol Lowrey in William H. Gerdts, Monet’s Giverny, Abbeville Press, 1993, pp. 222-227.
From the register
Under the same roof
The painters whose stay overlaps this one. The register establishes that they lodged in the house on the same days, and nothing more.
- Dawson Dawson-Watson 139 days from April 23, 1892 to September 8, 1892 · 2 shared stays
- John Leslie Breck 78 days from September 5, 1891 to November 21, 1891 · 2 shared stays
- Theodore Robinson 77 days from September 5, 1891 to November 20, 1891 · 2 shared stays
- Lilla Cabot Perry 46 days from September 5, 1891 to October 20, 1891 · 2 shared stays
- Philip Leslie Hale 25 days from August 6, 1892 to August 30, 1892
