John Robinson Tait

TAIT, JOHN ROBINSON, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1834. Landscape painter ; graduated at Bethany College, Virginia, in 1852, and spent the following three years in Europe, chiefly in Florence ; visited Europe a second time in 1859, and studied at Dusseldorf under August Weber and Andreas Achenbach until 1871; made a third visit in 1873, and worked several years in the Bavarian Tyrol and in Munich under Adolf Lier and Hermann Baisch, under whom he studied cattle painting.

He spent altogether fourteen years in Germany, during which his pictures were disposed of at the cyclical exhibitions. Medals : 1871, 1872, Cincinnati Exhibition. Studio in Baltimore. Works : Waterfall in Pyrenees, James Caird, Gourock House, Greenock on the Clyde ; Meyringen, James Staats Forbes, Wickham Hall, Kent ; Waterfall, Prince Heinrich XVIII. of Reuss ; Lake of Wallenstadt, William Groesbeck, Cincinnati ; Westphalian Landscape (figures by Ludwig Knaus), C. S. Wolff, Philadelphia ; A Mill (figures by Munkicsy), William H. Davis, Cincinnati ; Evening in Norway, George R. Vickers, Baltimore ; Evening on the Lake, Tyrolese Idyl, Summer (1876) ; Willowy Brook (1879) ; Cattle Resting, Watering Place (1880) ; After the Shower, Fisher Huts - Sconsett (1882) ; Summer Afternoon - Upper Potomac (1883).