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        1. Depicted here are the artist's wife, Anna, and their first child, Caroline Alden Weir, born in , seated in a large, sunny room just off the dining room.
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        3. Having studied with leading academic painters in Paris, Weir was repelled by French Impressionism in the s.
        4. Before the s, Julian Alden Weir's work had focused mostly on still-life and interior subjects, but by his palette had lightened and his brushwork had.

          5. Julian Alden Weir
          BornAugust 30, 1852
          West Point, New York
          DiedDecember 8, 1919 (at age 67)
          NationalityAmerican
          EducationNational Academy of Design, École des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme
          MovementImpressionism
          FieldPainting
          WorksView Complete Works

          Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) was an American painter of the Impressionist school.

          He was part of a loose grouping of American artists known as The Ten; they put on their own exhibitions of their artworks after having become disillusioned with the world of professional art. Weir was briefly president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and later, held the same post at the National Academy of Design.

          Personal life

          Weir was born into something of an artistic family: his father, Robert, was a drawing professor at West Point Military Academy, while his brother, John, was a prominent landscape painter.

          Julian himself traveled to Paris in order to study at the renowned Ecole des