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Thomas Prichard Rossiter was the son of Harry Caldwell and Charlotte (Beers) Rossiter and a descendant of Edward Rossiter, who came to America in 1630 and settled in Connecticut.
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Thomas Prichard Rossiter was the son of Harry Caldwell and Charlotte (Beers) Rossiter and a descendant of Edward Rossiter, who came to America in 1630 and settled in Connecticut.
He began the study of drawing and painting in New Haven under Nathaniel Jocelyn and by the time he was twenty had taken a studio and begun the painting of portraits. In 1840 he sailed for Europe in company with A. B. Durand, J. F. Kensett, and J. W. Casilear. After studying six months in London and traveling through England and Scotland, he spent a year with Kensett in Paris, where he studied in a life class made copies in the Louvre. In the fall of 1841 he went with Thomas Cole by way of Switzerland to Rome; there he took a studio in the Via Felice and passed five consecutive winters studying in the museums and painting, his summers being given to travel in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.
After his return to America in 1846, Rossiter settled in New York, and in 1851 with Kensett and Louis Lang, moved into a new studio in Broadway which had been planned and built especially for them. In the spring of 1853, he again set forth on extended travels abroad and in December took a studio in Paris, where he stayed almost three years.
He exhibited in the Salon of 1855. He had previously (1849) been elected to the National Academy of Design. In the summer of 1856 he returned to New York and was kept busy painting portraits until October 1857, when he began several large historical compositions, notably his well-known "Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1776, " also called "Palmy Days, " which was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 1905. This large painting, finished in 1859, depicts Washington in a dark blue coat and knee-breeches, standing on the veranda of his house in conversation with Lafayette. Mrs. Washington and Nellie Custis are seated at a table, with a little girl beside them; on the lawn is a boy with a colored nurse and two dogs. In the distance, beyond a line of trees, is the Potomac. The landscape part of the work was done by Louis R. Mignot.
In 1860 Rossiter left the city and moved to Cold Spring, N. Y. , a beautifully situated village on the east bank of the Hudson, where he lived in a house that he designed and constructed for his professional purposes. There he made another historical picture entitled "The Prince of Wales and President Buchanan with Other Dignitaries at the Tomb of Washington, 1860, " now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painter's other contributions to Washingtoniana are "Washington in his Library at Mount Vernon" and "Washington's First Cabinet. "
He devoted much time towards the end of his life to a series of pictures of the life of Jesus. In earlier years he had made a number of large biblical illustrations, such as "The Return of the Dove to the Ark, " "The Jews in Captivity, " "The Parting of Ruth, Orpha and Naomi, " and "Rebecca at the Well, " the last being in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. He died suddenly in 1871 at his home on the Hudson.
Rossiter was known for his portraits and paintings of historical scenes. His best large compositions depicting scenes from early American history, included: "Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon", "Washington and His First Cabinet", and "George Washington and Family". He won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of 1855 for his "Venice in the Fifteenth Century".
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On October 15, 1851, Rossiter married Anna Ehrick Parmly. He had three children.
