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The_Last_Voyage-A_Souvenir_of_the_Ganges,_Benares.
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Oil_on_canvas._72.5_x_110.75_in._(183.5_x_283.1_cm)._Courtesy_Sotheby's
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The Last Voyage-A Souvenir of the Ganges, Benares.
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| Oil on canvas. 72.5 x 110.75 in. (183.5 x 283.1 cm). Courtesy Sotheby's |
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American Academic Painter, 1849-1903, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.
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