Frederick Styles Agate

Frederick Styles Agate (29 January 1803 – 1 May 1844) was a painter best known for his paintings Ugolino and Old Oaken Bucket.

At the age of 15, he moved to New York City to study painting under John Rubens Smith.

In 1825, with his friend Thomas S. Cummings, he left Smith to study under Samuel F. B. Morse at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.

Agate and Cummings led the movement which resulted in the formation of the National Academy of Design.

He went to Paris and Florence in 1834–1835, returning home to Sparta, New York, where he died in 1844, aged 41 of tuberculosis.