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William Alexander Coulter (1849 –
1936)
William Alexander Coulter was born in Glenariff, Ireland on March 7,
1849 His father was a captain in the coast guard. He worked as
a sail maker in San Francisco upon his arrival there. His painting
did not receive any public attention until 1874 but from then on gained
more popularity for his accurate depictions of ships at sea. Coulter
was a self taught artist but did travel to Europe to study marine painting
in his late twenties. Laterhe worked as an illustrator for a San
Francisco newspaper doing pen and ink drawings of waterfront scenes.
Coulter died on March 13, 1936 in Sausalito, California.
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