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Frederick Styles Agate (29 January 1803 – 1 May 1844) was a painter best known for his paintings ''Ugolino'' and ''Old Oaken Bucket''.
Frederick Styles Agate's biography at AskART
1800s births 1844 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters People from Sparta, New York Painters from New York City 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1800s-stub
Frederick Styles Agate (29 January 1803 – 1 May 1844) was a painter best known for his paintings ''Ugolino'' and ''Old Oaken Bucket''.
Life and work
He was born to Thomas Agate and his British wife, Hannah Agate in the Sparta, neighborhood of Ossining, New York in 1803, although some sources give the year as 1807.] Frederick was the brother of another noted painter,Alfred Thomas Agate
Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812 – January 5, 1846) was an American painter and miniaturist.
Agate lived in New York from 1831 to 1838, where he studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He l ...
. 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
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, an ...
.
Beginning in 1827, he worked as a historical and portrait painter at 152 Broadway
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in New York City. His work is described as being semi-religious and moralistic. He went to Paris and Florence
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in 1834–1835, returning home to Sparta, New York
Sparta is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. The population was 1,624 at the 2010 census. Sparta is in the southeast part of the county and is north of Dansville.
History
The area was first settled ''circa'' 1794. Spart ...
, where he died in 1844, aged 41 of tuberculosis.
He is buried in Sparta Cemetery, next to his sister Harriet Agate Carmichael. As of 2019, his headstone has gone missing.
References
Sources
*''Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896.'' Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.Frederick Styles Agate's biography at AskART
1800s births 1844 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters People from Sparta, New York Painters from New York City 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1800s-stub