Name William Stone | Role Film director | |
Children Sean Stone, Tara Chong Stone, Michael Jack Stone Education Trinity School, The Hill School, Yale University, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Books The Untold History of the United States Movies and TV shows Platoon, Savages, Natural Born Killers, Born on the Fourth of July, Oliver Stone's Untold Hi Similar People Sean Stone, Brian De Palma, Michael Douglas, Colin Farrell, Quentin Tarantino | ||
Oliver Stone, film director
William Oliver Stone (September 26, 1830 – September 15, 1875) was an American portrait painter.
Stone was born in Derby, Connecticut, to a prominent family. He studied under Nathaniel Jocelyn in New Haven from 1848, until Jocelyn's studio suffered a catastrophic fire in 1849. Stone moved to New York in 1851, where he opened his own studio, and became a successful portrait painter. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1856, and full member in 1859, exhibiting in each of the Academy's annual exhibitions from 1861 through his early death, in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1875. Two of his better-known portraits are of Cyrus West Field (in a private collection) and of William Wilson Corcoran (in the Walters Art Museum).