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1885._Oil_on_canvas._18.75_x_22.5_in._(47_.6_x_57_cm)._Courtesy_Vance_Jordan_Fine_Art_Inc.,_NY.
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A Market in Isphahan
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1885. Oil on canvas. 18.75 x 22.5 in. (47 .6 x 57 cm). Courtesy Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., NY. |
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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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