Painter. He was a 19th-century American painter, who painted landscapes and exotic figures of the near East, or an Orientalist. Born the oldest of six children in a New England household, he graduated from Brown University in 1857 before moving to New York City, where he had a studio in the New York University building for twenty years. He did not study art while in college. Although many claimed he was self-taught, he admitted that he studied a host of successful painters. He received informal classes while in California from Thomas Hill and William Morris Hunt. He was known to have attended a life drawing class at the National Academy of Design between 1858 and 1859. During this time, he began is long-term exhibiting at the Academy. He painted a self-portrait in 1861. In 1874 he relocated to Massachusetts, settling in a studio in Boston from 1877 through 1909. During this time from 1879 through the 1890s, he traveled to the Netherlands, France, southern Spain, and North Africa and painting all that he experienced. On September 8, 1908 after a long romantic encounter starting in Boston, he married the Italian-born Marietta Ambrosi, an artist's model, Italian and French language teacher and translator, costumer, and author. He painted four paintings of her as the model. Out of respect for his mother's wishes, he postponed the marriage until his mother died. In 1909 he stopped painting as he believed he was a failure. The couple relocated to Italy near her hometown and returned only for a short stay to Boston for business in 1911.After his remains were cremated, his ashes were interred Cimitero Vantiniano. After his death, his widow returned to Boston before returning to Italy in 1921, when she died of pneumonia. She was interred next to him. His brother placed a cenotaph in Swan Point Cemetery in Rhode Island. Besides the National Academy of Design, his paintings are on displayed at various sites in New England including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Although most of his pieces fetch under $1,000 at auction, his colorful Oriental oil paintings "Algeria Street Scene with Woman and Child" sold for $1,000 and "The Loin" sold for $3,000 in 2020. His New England inspired "Wooded Landscape" sold at auction for $3,500 in 2017.