Artist. Acclaimed for his work of “The First Operation with Ether” which is displayed at Harvard’s Francis A Countway Library of Medicine and for his historical painting of “Alexander at Persepolis.” He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and for twenty years was trained under the master portraitist Charles Auguste Emile Durand. In 1884 he returned to the United States and settled in Washington D.C. He established an art studio and taught portrait classes at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. He painted a vast number of portraits on American subjects such as President Ulysses S. Grant and John Alsop King. Many of his portraits are on display at the West Point Military Academy. In all, he had produced more than 350 paintings. He died at his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Artist. Acclaimed for his work of “The First Operation with Ether” which is displayed at Harvard’s Francis A Countway Library of Medicine and for his historical painting of “Alexander at Persepolis.” He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and for twenty years was trained under the master portraitist Charles Auguste Emile Durand. In 1884 he returned to the United States and settled in Washington D.C. He established an art studio and taught portrait classes at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. He painted a vast number of portraits on American subjects such as President Ulysses S. Grant and John Alsop King. Many of his portraits are on display at the West Point Military Academy. In all, he had produced more than 350 paintings. He died at his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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