Christopher Shearer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 18-May-1846
Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1926
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Christopher Shearer
- Christopher High Shearer (1846–1926) was a prolific United States painter in Berks County, Pennsylvania, known primarily for his large landscape paintings.
- Christopher Shearer was born May 18, 1846, in Reading, Pennsylvania to Christopher and Catherine Shearer.
- As a boy, Shearer spent time in the studios of artists Francis Daniel Devlan and John Heyl Raser.
- At age 18, Christopher showed an interest in painting professionally, and became a student of both Devlan and Raser.
- His father helped him by building him a studio in the backyard of his farm in Shearertown (present day Muhlenberg Township).
- At the age of 21, Shearer opened his own studio in Reading and was very successful in selling his works locally.
- By age 27 Shearer was nationally recognized artist. He later traveled to Europe and studied in Düsseldorf and Munich.
- Shearer exhibited his works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at an art exhibition celebrating the United States Centennial in 1876.
- In 1878, on a return trip to Germany, he was awarded a Gold Medal by the Düsseldorf School of Art.
- He also exhibited many of his works in a studio he opened in Reading in 1883. Shearer was a teacher as well as an artist.
- He held many art classes in his Reading studio to encourage the development of art in Berks County and elsewhere in Pennsylvania.
- Shearer was instrumental in the founding of the Reading Public Museum.
- As a friend of Dr.
- Levi Mengel (the founder of the museum), Shearer was appointed the museum's chief art curator until his death.
- He also enjoyed collecting butterflies, moths and bugs and kept detailed records and drawings of these insects.
- Shearer died in Reading in 1926. Many of his works now hang in the Reading Museum or private collections.
- His paintings are part of several collections, including ones in Canada, Australia, Germany, and the United States.
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