Robert Loftin Newman

Θέση: Richmond

Γεννημένος: 1827

Θάνατος: 1912

Βιογραφία:

Robert Loftin Newman (November 10, 1827 – March 31, 1912) was an American painter and stained-glass designer. He specialized in oil on canvas as his medium. He is sometimes associated with Albert Pinkham Ryder as a painter of mood. Newman was born in Richmond, Virginia and moved to Clarksville, Tennessee when he was 11 years of age. He studied art in New York, England, and France. Newman served briefly as an artillery lieutenant for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He died of asphyxiation from a gas leak from a stove on March 31, 1912.