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

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