biography
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Earl or Earle, Ralph
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1751–1801)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Worcester Co, Massahcusetts, USA. He spent most of his life in Connecticut, except for a stay in England (1778–85), and became a leading portrait painter, rivaled only by John Singleton Copley, who influenced his work. His paintings have a folk quality, as in ‘Portrait of Elijah Boardman’ (1789). |
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