Frederick Styles Agate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrederick Styles Agate
American artist
Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1803
Place of Birth: New York, United States
Date of Death: 01-May-1844
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Frederick Styles Agate
- Frederick Styles Agate (29 January 1803 – 1 May 1844) was a noted painter best known for his paintings Ugolino and Old Oaken Bucket. He was born to Thomas Agate and Hannah Agate in Sparta, New York in 1803.
- [Some biographical sources give birth date as 1807.] Frederick was the brother of another noted painter, Alfred Thomas Agate.
- At the age of 15, he moved to New York City to study painting under John Rubens Smith. In 1825, with his friend Thomas S.
- Cummings, he left Smith to study under Samuel F.
- B.
- Morse at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York City.
- Agate and Cummings led the movement which resulted in the formation of the National Academy of Design. Beginning in 1827, he worked as a historical and portrait painter at 152 Broadway in New York City.
- His work is described as being semi-religious and moralistic.
- He went to Paris and Florence in 1834-1835, returning home to Sparta, New York, where he died in 1844, aged 41 of undisclosed causes.
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