WILLIAM

See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• WILLIAM PAGE (1811-1885)

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

Besides numerous portraits he painted "

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