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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
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ALEXANDER (1800—1881)  ,
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American portrait-painter, was
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born in
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Windham
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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
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colours, and in 1820 went to New
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York
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City and studied
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painting with
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Alexander
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Robertson . He spent the winters of 1831 and 1832 in
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Rome, and then for nearly a
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decade he lived in
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Boston,
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Massachusetts, where he had considerable
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vogue, and where in 1842 he painted a portrait of
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Charles
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Dickens . One of his best portraits is that ofMrs
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Fletcher
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Webster in the Boston Museum of
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Fine Arts . He died in 1881 in
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Florence .

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