J. Alden Weir and Branchville, A Pictorial Chronology
Sarah Olson

1852

Born to Robert Walter Weir and Susan Bayard Weir. Grows up in a large family of 16 children in the Hudson River highlands where father Robert Walter
Weir teaches drawing at West Point Military Academy.

Stereo view of Professor Weir’s house at West Point

Robert Walter Weir, Drawing of Julian and his mother, c. 1853, Weir Farm NHS

Julian (childhood photo), Weir Farm NHS

Robert Walter and Susan Bayard Weir, c. xx, Weir Farm NHS1878