William Edward Norton glass plate negatives
name: label: Creator
content: Norton, William Edward, 1843-1916
topic: label: Occupation
content: Marine painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Marine painters -- England
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the Archives of American Art in 1990 by Vose Galleries of Boston, who received them from William Welcome, a descendant of Norton.
creator: label: Creator
content: Norton, William Edward, 1843-1916
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content: William Edward Norton glass plate negatives
abstract: label: Summary
content: The sixty-nine glass plate negatives of marine painter William Edward Norton (1843-1916) measure 0.42 linear feet and date from circa 1880 and include one image of Norton, and images of unidentified women and children, presumably members of Norton's family. Other negatives are of boats and sailing ships or show buildings and river and street scenes; two images are of paintings of ships. Also found is a folder of contact sheets, circa 1990, made from sixty-five of the negatives.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Edward Norton (1843-1916) was a Boston born marine painter who studied in France, and settled in London. Norton had two paintings accepted by the Paris Salon, and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He also represented the United States at the International Exposition. 

Norton, who was born into a family of shipbuilders, worked as a sailor in his youth and would sketch ships, crew, and seascapes during his free time. He later attended the Lowell Institute and studied under George Innes. Sales of his paintings funded his trip to France where he studied with Antoine Vollon and painted the Normandy coast.

After living in London with his wife, Norton returned to the United States in the early 1890s and lived and worked in New York City until his death.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.42 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880
label: Date
content: circa 1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nortwill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The glass plate negatives were re-housed in 2015 with a grant from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The collection was processed and described in a finding aid by Stephanie Ashley in 2018 and the glass plate negatives were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All of the glass plate negatives, were digitized in 2019 and are available on the Archives of American Art website. Contact sheets were not digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The sixty-nine glass plate negatives of marine painter William Edward Norton (1843-1916) measure 0.42 linear feet and date from circa 1880 and include one image of Norton, and images of unidentified women and children, presumably members of Norton's family. Other negatives are of boats and sailing ships or show buildings and river and street scenes; two images are of paintings of ships. Also found is a folder of contact sheets, circa 1990, made from sixty-five of the negatives.