Robert John Pattison (1838-1903
Pattison lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey and has an extensive record of exhibited works, including examples at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association, but remarkably few have been located to date. Many of his works related to the marshes and landscape of the New Jersey coast and New York harbor.
Throughout his career Pattison was devoted to the ideals of the American pre-Raphaelites with whom he exhibited as early as 1858. In 1886 the artist was criticized for a painting he showed at The National Academy as exhibiting “too much conscientious study and careful execution.”