CHARLES HOWARD DAVIS (1857- )
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 866
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:CHARLES See also:HOWARD See also:DAVIS (1857- )
, See also:American landscape painter, was See also:born at See also:East See also:Cambridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 2nd of See also:February 1857
.
A See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the See also:schools of the See also:Boston Museum of See also:Fine Arts, he was sent to See also:Paris in r880
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Having studied at the See also:Academy See also:Julian under See also:Lefebvre and See also:Boulanger, he went to See also:Barbizon and painted much in the See also:forest of See also:Fontainebleau under the traditions of the " men of See also:thirty." He became a full member of the See also:National Academy of See also:Design in 1906, and received many awards, including a See also:silver See also:medal at the Paris See also:Exhibition of 1889
.
He is represented by important See also:works in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New See also:York; the Corcoran Art See also:Gallery, See also:Washington; the See also:Pennsylvania Academy, See also:Philadelphia, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
.
End of Article: CHARLES HOWARD DAVIS (1857- )
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