Marcus Mote (1817 — February 26, 1898) was a

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artist who worked in Ohio and Indiana.

Biography

Mote was born in

West Milton, Ohio West Milton is a village in Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,630 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The first settlement at West Milton was made in 1807. West Milton was ...

in 1817. In 1844 he moved to

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where he established a studio. He worked there as an itinerant artist. He opened a studio there, in 1864 he removed to Richmond, Indiana. He began teaching art to a few students in his Lebanon studio, which he expanded in Richmond. He called his new venture "Richmond Academy of Design," during his time in Richmond he campaigned for general art education. in public schools. Mote's work includes

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still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, bo ...

s, religious paintings,

portraits A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For thi ...

and

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. He painted portraits of at least three governors, Jeremiah Morrow and Tom Corwin of Ohio and

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of Indiana. Marcus Mote died Feb. 26, 1898 and is buried in the Earlham Cemetery, Richmond,

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. His works can be found in the collections of the Richmond Art Museum, Wayne County Historical Museum,

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, the Warren County hioHistorical Society,

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and the

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References

1817 births 1898 deaths American portrait painters American Quakers Painters from Indiana Painters from Ohio People from West Milton, Ohio American male painters 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists People from Lebanon, Ohio People from Richmond, Indiana {{US-painter-1810s-stub