| Lemuel M. Wiles | |
| Birth Place: | Perry, New York, U.S. |
| Death Date: | January 28, 1905 |
| Death Place: | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Children: | Irving Ramsey Wiles |
Lemuel M. Wiles (1826 - 1905) was an American landscape painter.
Lemuel Maynard Wiles was born on October 21, 1826, in Perry, Wyoming County, New York.[1] He studied landscape painting with Jasper Francis Cropsey.[1]
Wiles taught school in Perry, Utica and Albany.[1]
Wiles served as the Head of the Art Department at the University of Nashville.[1] [2] [3] He also served as the Director of the College of Fine Arts at Ingham University.[1]
Wiles was an early traveler to California.[1] His journey took him via the Isthmus of Panama all the way to the West Coast.[1] Once in California, he did many landscape paintings of Spanish towns.[1] In his lifetime, his paintings were often exhibited at the National Academy of Design.[1] Moreover, he painted the Cucamonga Valley in 1874.[4]
Wiles resided at 101 West 55th Street in Manhattan.[1] He had a son, Irving Ramsey Wiles, who became a portrait painter.[1]
Wiles died of pneumonia on January 28, 1905, in Manhattan, New York City.[1] [2] [5]
His artwork can be seen in the Perry Public Library's Stowell-Wiles Gallery in his home town of Perry, New York,[6] and in private collections. Additionally, his painting of the Cucamonga Valley is in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.[4] Furthermore, his bust, designed by sculptor Chester Beach in 1922, is on the grounds of the Le Roy Central School in Le Roy, New York.[7]