Marcus Mote
Oil portrait by Marcus Mote (1870)

Marcus Mote (1817 — February 26, 1898) was a Quaker artist who worked in Ohio and Indiana.

Biography

Mote was born in West Milton, Ohio in 1817.[1] In 1844 he moved to Lebanon, Ohio where he established a studio. He worked there as an itinerant artist. He opened a studio there, in 1864 he removed to Richmond, Indiana.[2] 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 landscapes, still lifes, religious paintings, portraits and photographs. He painted portraits of at least three governors, Jeremiah Morrow and Tom Corwin of Ohio and Oliver P. Morton of Indiana.[2]

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

His works can be found in the collections of the Richmond Art Museum, Wayne County Historical Museum,[3] Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Earlham College,[4] the Warren County [Ohio] Historical Society, Glendower State Memorial and the Ohio Statehouse.

References

  1. ↑ History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns. Inter-State Publishing Company. 1884. p. 643.
  2. 1 2 Thornburg, Opal (December 1955). "Marcus Mote and his Pioneer School of Design". Indiana Magazine of History. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Marcus Mote". Waynet. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Marcus Mote Collection, 1840-1898, Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives". Earlham College. Retrieved 22 January 2017.


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