Editing William Jacob Baer (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of a Woman in Black - William Jacob Baer.jpg|thumb|''Portrait of a Woman in Black'' (1911), [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]

William Jacob Baer was born in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] on January 29, 1860.<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baer, William Jacob}}</ref> He was a lithographer's apprentice at Donaldson and Company in Cincinnati from 1876 to 1879. During the same period he attended an evening modeling class at the [[Art Academy of Cincinnati|McMicken School of Design]], taught by [[Louis Rebisso]]. He continued his training in [[Munich]] at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Munich|Royal Academy]] from 1880 to 1884, studying oil painting with [[Ludwig Löfftz]]. He received medals in all his courses, and the Academy purchased one of his watercolors.<ref name="Dearinger ">{{Cite book |last=Dearinger |first=David Bernard |chapter=William Jacob Baer |title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&pg=PA22 |page=22 |publisher=Hudson Hills |isbn=9781555950293 |year=2004 |access-date=2021-04-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1913, Baer was elected into the [[National Academy of Design]] as an Associate member.

Upon his return to the United States, Baer settled into the [[Montclair, New Jersey]] art colony to continue his career as a genre painter, portrait painter, and teacher. He was attracted there by his friend, Alexander Drake (the art editor ''[[Scribner’s Monthly]]''). Drake encouraged him to teach a class in engraving and black-and-white draftsmanship for illustrators; class members were dubbed the "Carbonari".<ref name="Dearinger"/>  In 1888 Baer became the instructor at [[Round Lake, New York]], for summer classes at a [[Chautauqua]]-like cultural enterprise to which he remained attached until 1891; in 1893 he took over the classes at Chautauqua itself for several years.  In 1892 and '93, he turned from figure painting to miniatures (both portraits and other subjects), initially under the patronage of [[Alfred Corning Clark]], and soon Baer not only became the most renowned miniaturist in the country but also spearheaded the miniature-painting revival that began at that time. He was the first president of the [[American Society of Miniature Painters]], New York.<ref name="eb1911"/>

Baer exhibited at the [[World's Columbian Exposition|Chicago Worlds Fair]] of 1893.<ref>Carr, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vatPAAAAMAAJ&q=Baer p. 203, 393].</ref>  In New York and at the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Paris Exposition]] of 1900, Baer was awarded a 1st class medals. He also was a regular exhibitor at the [[National Academy of Design]], N.Y., the [[Chicago Art Institute]] and the [[Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art]]. Among his miniatures are ''The Golden Hour'', ''Daphne'', ''In Arcadia'', and ''Madonna with the Auburn Hair''.<ref name="eb1911"/> In 1913, Baer was elected into the [[National Academy of Design]] as an Associate member.

Baer died in [[East Orange, New Jersey]] on September 21, 1941.<ref name="Dearinger"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75191825/william-jacob-baer-painter-dies/ |title=William Jacob Baer, Painter, Dies |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |location=East Orange, New Jersey |agency=AP |page=18 |date=1941-09-22 |access-date=2021-04-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>