William Merritt POST
1856–1935, USA

Maintaining studios in both New York City and in West Morris, now Bantum, Connecticut, William Merritt Post first studied art in New York with Samuel Frost Johnson, a relatively unknown artist. Then he moved on to the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith and then with the landscape painter, Hugh Bolton Jones. He and Jones did tightly focused landscape scenes, often with streams amid trees. Capturing light at differing times was their goal, and by the mid-1880s, he was obviously influenced by Impressionism. An associate member of the National Academy of Design in New York, Post moved to Connecticut in 1912.

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