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WILLIAM PAGE (1811-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:PAGE (1811-1885)  , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Albany, New See also:York, on the 3rd of See also:January 1811 . He studied for the See also:ministry at the See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1828-183o and in later See also:life became a Swedenborgian . He received his training in See also:art from S . F . B . See also:Morse and in the See also:schools of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, and in 1836 became a National Academician . From 1849 to 186o, he lived in See also:Rome, where he painted portraits of his See also:friends See also:Robert and See also:Elizabeth See also:Browning . The first collection of See also:Lowell's Poems (1843) was dedicated to See also:Page, who was also a friend of W . W . See also:Story . In 1871-1873 he was See also:president of the National Academy of Design . He died at See also:Tottenville, Staten See also:Island, New York, on the 1st of See also:October 1885 .

Besides numerous portraits he painted " See also:

Farragut at the See also:Battle of See also:Mobile," belonging to the See also:Tsar of See also:Russia; a " See also:Holy See also:Family," in the See also:Boston See also:Athenaeum; and " The See also:Young Merchants," at the See also:Pennsylvania Academy of the See also:Fine Arts, See also:Philadelphia . He modelled and painted several portraits of See also:Shakespeare, based on the See also:Becker " See also:death See also:mask." He wrote A New Geometrical Method of Measuring the Human Figure (186o) .

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