Charles Mount

He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956 and travelled to Europe where he worked in Italy, France, Britain and Ireland.

He specialized in portraits and also produced landscapes and streetscapes in oil and watercolor as well as charcoal drawings.

He was interested in art history and published biographies of John Singer Sargent (1955), Gilbert Stuart (1964) and Claude Monet (1966).

November 24, 1873, The Precise Moment of Impressionism: Claude Monet's "The Bridge at Argenteuil" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol.

Mount was arrested at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1987, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for attempting to sell 158 Civil War documents to Claire Rochefort.

The second count covered 144 of the 158 Civil War documents Mount was attempting to sell to Rochefort.

Because of excellent record-keeping by both institutions, including call slips and microfilm versions of the documents, Mount was convicted on March 30, 1989, and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

[1] Smithsonian Archives of American Art Charles Merrill Mount papers relating to Gilbert Stuart, [ca.