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GEORGE HITCHCOCK (1850-- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 533 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:HITCHCOCK (1850-- )  , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Providence, Rhode See also:Island, in 185o . He graduated from See also:Brown University in 1872 and from the See also:law school of Harvard University in 1874; then turned his See also:attention to See also:art and became a See also:pupil of See also:Boulanger and See also:Lefebvre in See also:Paris . He attracted See also:notice in the See also:Salon of 1885 with his " See also:Tulip Growing," a Dutch See also:garden which he painted in See also:Holland . He had for years a studio at Egmond, in the See also:Netherlands . He became a See also:Chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, See also:France; a member of the See also:Vienna See also:Academy of Arts, the See also:Munich See also:Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the See also:Dresden See also:gallery; the imperial collection, Vienna; the See also:Chicago Art See also:Institute, and the See also:Detroit Museum of See also:Fine Arts .

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