John Rollin Tilton (

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, USA, 8 June 1828 - 28 March 1888) was an

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painter, mainly of ''

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'' of picturesque urban scenes.

Biography

He was initially self-taught, but then trained in

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, and later in

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, where he lived for many years initially making a living painting ''vedute'' and reproductions of masters. He painted a ''Rome from the Aventine'', the ''Lagoon of Venice'', ''The Egitto'', and the ''Lago di Averno''. The American statesman

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bought his ''Vallata Chamounix'', and the American businessman W. B. Astor, his ''Lago di Thun''; Louise, lady Ashburton, ''

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in Egypt'' and ''Paestum''; the Boston mayor Martin Brimmer, his ''Lago di Como'' and ''Venice'', and Count Palfy, his ''Vedute of Orvieto''. De Gubernatis noted that "those who found Neapolitan vedute painters, warm and scintillating, would find Tilton cold and calm." He painted many watercolors. Rollin Tilton and his wife, the writer and translator Caroline Town Stebbins, gathered a following among émigrés and visitors from the English speaking world. Among them were

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and

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.Henry James Letters: 1875-1883, Page 162

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