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See also: American artist, was See also: born at See also: Tuskegee, See also: Alabama, on the loth of See also: November 1847
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He began as a draughtsman in New See also: York for the American See also: Bank Note See also: Company in 1864–1865, and studied See also: art in the same years at the See also: Brooklyn Art School and at the See also: National See also: Academy of Design; but he went to See also: Paris in 1866 and became a pupil of J
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Paris then became his headquarters
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A trip to See also: Egypt in 1873–1874 resulted in pictures of the See also: East that attracted immediate See also: attention, and his large and important composition, " The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the See also: Nile," in the Paris See also: Salon (1877), bought by See also: James
See also: Gordon See also: Bennett, brought him the See also: cross of the See also: Legion of Honour
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Other paintings by him were "An American Circus in See also: Normandy," "Procession of the Bull See also: Apis " (now in the Corcoran Art Gallery, See also: Washington), and a " Rumanian Lady " (in the See also: Temple collection, See also: Philadelphia)
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