biography of William Henry BUCK (1840-1888)

Birth place: Norway

Death place: New Orleans, LA

Addresses: Boston; New Orleans, LA active 1869-88

Profession: Painter, restorer

Studied: Boston; with Ernest Ciceri, Richard Clague, Andres Molinary, Achille Perelli, 1860

Exhibited: Grand State Fair, 1869 (3 silver medals), 1870 (diploma); Goupil's, NYC, 1877; W.E. Seebold's, 1877-1878, 1880, 1885; Wagener's, 1877-1878, 1880, 1885; Lilienthal's, 1880-1881; Southern Art Union, 1881; World's Indust. and Cotton Cent. Expo., 1884-1885; Creole Exh., American Expo., 1885-1886; Artist's Assoc. of New Orleans, 1886-1887.

Member: Southern Art Union, (co-founder1880, dir. 1882)

Comments: Came to Boston from Norway and spent some time in New England. He came to New Orleans c.1860, where he worked as a clerk, then comission merchant, cotton weigher and cotton broker. During this time he also studied and worked as an artist and became a full time artist c.1880. He shared studios with Molinari (see entry), Perelli (see entry) and Paul Poincy (see entry) and became the popular successor of Clague (see entry) as a landscape painter. Live oaks were his typical subject and he also painted scenes of the Teche and Attakapas regions.

Sources: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 57-58.