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HARRY SIDDONS MOWBRAY (1858– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 948 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIDDONS See also:MOWBRAY (1858– )  , See also:American artist, was See also:born of See also:English parents at See also:Alexandria, See also:Egypt, on the 5th of See also:August 1858 . See also:Left an See also:orphan, he was taken to See also:America by an See also:uncle, who settled at See also:North See also:Adams, See also:Mass . After a See also:year at the See also:United States Military See also:Academy at See also:West Point, he went to See also:Paris and entered the atelier of See also:Leon See also:Bonnat, his first picture, " Aladdin," bringing him to public See also:notice . He was made a full member of the See also:National Academy of See also:Design in 1891 . Subsequently he was best known for his decorative See also:work, especially " The Transmission of the See also:Law," Appellate See also:Court See also:House; See also:ceiling for the See also:residence of F . W . See also:Vanderbilt; and the ceiling and walls of the library of the University See also:Club—all in New See also:York . This last was executed in See also:Rome, where, in 1903, he was made director of the American Academy .

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I love his painting "The Repose". I never knew it belonged to The Breakers in West Palm Beach. I had a card of it I bought a couple of years ago. I was surprised to see it at The Breakers, it looks like the original...is it????
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