Painter · American
Attested lodger
William Howard Hart
He painted Butler at Giverny in 1897; Butler painted him in return, the same year.
- Dates1863 — 1934
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthFishkill-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Biography
William Howard Hart was born in 1863 and died in 1934. Trained at the Art Students League of New York and then at the Académie Julian, he later rented a house next to Theodore Earl Butler’s at Giverny. His date of death is not settled: Carol Lowrey herself writes “Died 1934 (or 1937?)”, and the Terra Foundation gives 1937. We retain 1934 and note the doubt.
Giverny
At Giverny, in 1897, he painted the portrait of his friend Theodore Earl Butler. That same year Butler painted his: “Portrait of the Artist, William Howard Hart, Giverny”, Hart seated on a balcony, playing cards on a table. The two canvases answer one another.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
A single line, but a clear one: “Hart Wm. H., 25 ans, New York, 21–26 septembre 1889”. Five days.
Principal works
Key points
- 1863Born — Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York, United States
- Giverny1897, then tenant
- 1934Died
Sources
- 01Terra Foundation for American Art, “Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France, 1885–1915”, exhibition texts
- 02Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog, Theodore Earl Butler, “Portrait of the Artist, William Howard Hart, Giverny”, 1897
- 03Hôtel 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.
- Theodore Robinson 6 days from September 21, 1889 to September 26, 1889
- Lilla Cabot Perry 6 days from September 21, 1889 to September 26, 1889
