Wallace Bryant (December 19, 1863 – May 2, 1953) was an American
archer
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who competed in the
1904 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in the team competition. In the
Double York round he finished fourth and in the
Double American round he finished eighth.
Bryant was also a famous portrait artist.
Biography
Bryan was born in Melrose, Massachusetts to Dexter and Dorcas (Hancock) Bryant. He was the second of seven children. He attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...
(then known as the Massachusetts Normal Art School), graduating in 1884. He also studied at the Académie Julian under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin-Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits.
Biography
Benjamin-Constant was bor ...
, Paul Albert Laurens, Albert Francois Fleury, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...
.[
He married Nanna Matthews Bryant (née Nanna Bolton Matthews, a fellow artist whom he likely met at the Académie Julian, in 1898. They had adjacent studios at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the 1890s. The two divorced around 1919; Bryant moved to ]Washington, D.C.
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from Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
around that time.[
Bryant's second wife was Marjorie Millard Rice (Bryant); they met in New Hampshire and married in 1923 before moving to Rockport, Massachusetts. They had two children, Edward W.M. Bryant and Richard Hancock Bryant.][
Bryant's younger brother, George Bryant, was also on the Boston Archery Club team that earned bronze in the team competition.][ Before the Games, Wallace was a more accomplished archer than his brother; Wallace had won a national championship in 1903.][ Wallace was also the first president of the Boston Archery Club, created in 1904.][ George won both individual events at the Olympics, however, and earned four national titles afterwards.][
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1863 births
1953 deaths
American male archers
Archers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in archery
Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
People from Melrose, Massachusetts
Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts