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JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 565 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856- )  ,
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American painter, was born in
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Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of
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October x856 . He was
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left an
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orphan when very young, became an illustrator for Harper's
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Magazine, studied in
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Europe, became a pupil of the Royal Academy at Munich, and also worked in Venice, in Holland and in Paris, where he attracted much attention by his
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exhibition at the
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Salon of two
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female portraits entitled " Gris " and " Noir." He became a member of the Societe Nationale
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des Beaux Arts (Paris), of the
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National Academy of Design (New York), of the International Society (
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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
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works include numerous portraits and subject pictures .

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