- Term
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
- Alternate Term
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam
- Occupation/Role
artist
- Nationality/Ethnicity
born England, active United States
- Date
1819-1905
- Remarks
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait was born in 1819, in Lively Hall near Liverpool, England, as the son of a maritime merchant. When he was eight years old he was sent to live with relatives in Lancaster. As twelve-year old he was trained to produce lithographic reproductions for Agnew & Zanetti Repository of Art. After seeing the work of George Catlin in a Paris exhibition, Tait immigrated to the United States in 1850 and began creating lithographs of Adirondack scenes for Currier & Ives. His romantic and dramatic depictions of life in the Adirondacks were enormously popular throughout the pre-Civil War era. Although he never traveled farther west than the Adirondacks, Tait is considered one of the principal painters of the American frontier. He died in 1905 at Yonkers, New York.