William Holbrook Beard
William Holbrook Beard (April 13, 1825 – February 20, 1900) was an American painter.
William Holbrook Beard Art
William Holbrook Beard Biography
He was a prolific worker and a man of much inventiveness and originality, though of modest artistic endowment. His humorous treatment of bears, cats, dogs, horses and monkeys, generally with some human occupation and expression, usually satirical, gave him a great vogue at one time, and his pictures were largely reproduced.
His brother, James Henry Beard (1814-1893), was also a painter.
William is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.