biography
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| lived:
| (1835–1910)
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| biography:
| Painter and multimedia artist, born in New York City, New York, USA. After study with Couture in Paris (1856), and William Morris Hunt in Newport, RI (1859), he maintained a studio in New York City. He worked as a sculptor, muralist, oil and watercolour painter, and stained glass designer. He decorated many churches, notably Trinity Church, Boston (1876), and among other accomplishments, invented opaline glass, an iridescent form of milk glass. His most famous painting, ‘Manua Our Boatman’ (1891), produced after a trip to the South Seas with Henry Adams (1890), is a striking and original work. |
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