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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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HARRY

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