WILLIAM MCKENDREE SNYDER

b. 1848- d. 1930 / American

William McKendree Snyder was an American painter who was best known for his paintings of Indiana landscapes. In primary school, he received his first art lessons in Liberty Indiana. In 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, where he was captured and put into a prisoner war camp. He survived and once out made Battle of Shiloh, an oil painting based on his experience. Post war, from 1868 to 1870 he studied with Inseco Williams in Cincinnati. Later, from 1872 to 1875 he studied with Hudson River School painters such as George Innis, Alexander Helwig Wyant, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eaton, and William Morris Hunt. He was heavily inspired by their landscape paintings, and that reflected on his work. He is best known for his detailed landscape paintings of southern Indiana Beech trees. 

His work is featured in numerous public and private collections, including the Indiana State Museum and Hanover College.