Thomas Buford Meteyard (1865-1928) (1865-1928)

Thomas Buford Meteyard was an American painter and graphic artist, who worked at the crossroads of some of the most important art movements of his day. After growing up in Rock Island, Illinois, and studying at Harvard (1885-87), Meteyard went to England where he encountered members of the Aesthetic Movement, notably designer Walter Crane (1845–1915) and painter and illustrator Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898). He then travelled to Paris, where Meteyard entered the atelier of the master academic painter Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), while also studying with Alfred Phillippe Roll (1846-1919) and Auguste-Joseph Delecluse (1855-1928). Meteyard continued to travel, and in the early 1890s, joined the international artists’ colony at Giverny, just north of Paris. Like so many other artists, including the Americans Robert Vonnoh (1858-1933), Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933), and John Leslie Breck (1859-1899), Meteyard was attracted to Giverny by