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FRANCIS ALEXANDER (1800—1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS ALEXANDER (1800—1881)  ,
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American portrait-painter, was born in Windham county,
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Connecticut, in
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February 1800 . Brought up on a
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farm, he taught himself the use of colours, and in 1820 went to New York City and studied
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painting with Alexander Robertson . He spent the winters of 1831 and 1832 in Rome, and then for nearly a decade he lived in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had considerable vogue, and where in 1842 he painted a portrait of Charles Dickens . One of his best portraits is that ofMrs Fletcher Webster in the Boston Museum of
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Fine Arts . He died in 1881 in Florence .

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