Wilder M. Darling (1856-1933) - Tirailleur De La Garde Impériale - Painting On Panel

Wilder M. DARLING (1856-1933
Tirailleur of the Imperial Guard
(EMPIRE Era)

Painting on panel.
Size of work: 21cm x 15 cm
Size of frame: 26 cm x 20 cm

Wilder M. Darling is recognized as the dean of Toledo's painters. He had a notable career in Europe before returning to Ohio, where he practiced as a painter and teacher. Born in Sandusky, Ohio, shortly before the Civil War, he began studying art at the age of fourteen under the tutelage of Henry Mosler in Cincinnati in 1870.

At nineteen, he left for Europe with Mosler to further his studies. He studied in Munich with Frank Duveneck and at the Royal Academy, before continuing his apprenticeship at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He also benefited from the teaching of William Merritt Chase in the United States.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Darling returned to the United States and spent two years in New York. He then settled in Toledo, near his hometown of Sandusky.