EDWIN HOWLAND

See also:

• EDWIN HOWLAND BLASHFIELD (1848– )

BLASHFIELD (1848– )  , American artist, was born on the 15th of December 1848 in New York City . He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York . For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, marked by rare delicacy and beauty of colouring . He painted mural decorations for a dome in the manufacturers' building at the Chicago Exposition of 1893; for the dome of the Congressional library, Washington; for the capitol at St Paul, Minnesota; for the Baltimore court-house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the grand ball-room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, the Lawyers' club, and the residences of W . K . Vanderbilt and Collis P . Huntington; and in Philadelphia for the residence of George W . Drexel . With his wife he wrote Italian Cities (1900) and edited Vasari's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on art . He became president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists .