George de Forest Brush

[3][4] He attended the National Academy of Design in New York, and also studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where Thayer was also a student.

It was partly because of such "wildness" that his future in-laws refused to approve of his marriage to their daughter, née Mittie Taylor Whelpley, which took place by elopement in 1886.

[7] Around the same time period, the subjects of Brush's paintings evolved from heroic depictions of Indian life to Renaissance-inspired portraits, some of which were modeled by his wife and his children.

[3] He encouraged and tutored the young Black American landscapist Richard Lonsdale Brown after the youth went to Brush's studio to show him his portfolio in the Spring of 1911.

[8] Brush and his family often spent the summer in Dublin, New Hampshire, where there was a thriving artists colony, and where they eventually settled.

Nearly thirty years later, his eldest daughter, a painter and theatre designer named Nancy Douglas Bowditch, published an account of his life.

Having been inspired by the American Pueblo artisans, and learning their craft, he brought these techniques to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and more importantly Long Island and Manhattan, New York, where he started The Brush Guild Pottery Foundation.