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JAMES CARROLL BECKWITH (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 610 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:CARROLL See also:BECKWITH (1852– )  , See also:American portrait-painter, was See also:born at See also:Hannibal, See also:Missouri, on the 23rd of See also:September 1852 . He studied in the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New See also:York See also:City, of which he afterwards became a member, and in See also:Paris (1873–1878) under Carolus See also:Duran . Returning to the See also:United States in 1878, he gradually became a prominent figure in American See also:art . He took an active See also:part in the formation of the See also:Fine Arts Society, and was See also:president of the National See also:Free Art See also:League, which attempted to secure the See also:repeal of the American See also:duty on See also:works of art . Among his portraits are those of W . M . See also:Chase (1882), of See also:Miss See also:Jordan (1883), of See also:Mark See also:Twain, T . A . Janvier, See also:General See also:Schofield and See also:William See also:Walton . He decorated one of the domes of the Manufactures See also:Building at the Columbian Exposition, See also:Chicago, 1893 .

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