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ROBERT CRANNELL MINOR (1839-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT CRANNELL MINOR (1839-1904)  ,
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American artist, was born in New York city on the 3oth of
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April 1839, and received his
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art training in Paris under Diaz, and in Antwerp under Joseph
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Van Luppen . His paintings are characteristic of the
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Barbizon school, and he was particularly happy in his sunset and
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twilight effects; but it was only within a few years of his
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death that he began to have a vogue among collectors . In 1897 he was elected a member of the
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National Academy of Design, New York . After 1900 he lived at
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Waterford,
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Connecticut, where he died on the 4th of August 1904 .

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