William M. Hart

William Hart, with his brother James (who also became an artist), was brought to this country by his parents, James and Marion Robertson Hart, from Scotland on the ship Camillus on February 12, 1830. Hart began his career as a coach and ornamental painter in Troy, New York. For several years he traveled throughout Michigan as an itinerant painter doing portraits before going to Europe to study.

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