JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856- )
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 565
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
WHITE ALEXANDER (1856- )
, American painter,
was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of October
x856
.
He was left an orphan when very young, became an illustrator for Harper's Magazine, studied in Europe, became a See also: - PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the Royal Academy at Munich, and also worked in Venice, in See also: - HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and in Paris, where he attracted much attention by his exhibition at the Salon of two female portraits entitled " Gris " and " Noir." He became a member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts (Paris), of the National Academy of Design (New York), of the International Society ( London), and of the Vienna and Munich Societies of Painters
.
In 1901 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
.
He executed decorative panels for the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C., and a large decoration for the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and his works include numerous portraits and subject pictures
.
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