William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (1879–1969)

William Starkweather, 1876-1969, an American Impressionist painter who emigrated from Belfast, Ireland to New Haven, Connecticut in 1884. He attended Hillhouse High School in Connecticut. After high school, he went to Europe and was a student in the Academie Colarossi in Paris. After Paris, he went to Spain to study with Joaquin Sorolla in Madrid and became a close friend and travelling companion. Upon returning to America he took classes at the Art Students League in New York with John Henry Twachtman. William Starkweather learned to paint everyday places in oils and watercolors.
Besides his many distinguished art awards, he was also one of the artists in the Society of Independent artists with John Sloan, Ernest Lawson and George Bellows. Starkweather was also a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club, the Allied Artists of America and the Salmagundi Club. Edward Hopper, William Glackens and William Starkweather were known to paint in the same locations, like Washington Square Park, in New York City.
William Starkweather taught at Cooper Union, Hunter College, Pratt Institute and the Traphagen School of design. Luigi Lucioni, Paul Cadmus, Wilfred Conrow and the famous comic book artist, Carl Pfeufer were some of Starkweather's many famous students.

Starkweather's paintings are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Hickory Museum, San Diego Museum, Tides Institute, Yale University, the James Madison University Art Collection, Roosevelt House and the New York Hispanic Society.
Starkweather published books about John Singer Sargent and Francisco Goya.
He was a well published book illustrator who created under the name WEB Starkweather and also wrote many articles for journals, especially The Mentor from 1919 to 1926.
At the end of his life he returned to New Haven, Connecticut and lived in the Golden Manor convalesent home until his death and was buried in a local cemetery in Winchester Center on May 14, 1969.