biography
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Benson, Frank (Weston)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1951)
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| biography:
| Painter and etcher, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1877–80), and in Paris (1883), settled in Boston to teach at the Museum of Fine Arts (1889–1912), and spent his summers in North Haven Island, ME. A member of the Ten (1898), he produced impressionist works, such as ‘Summer’ (1890), and also made popular wildlife etchings. |
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