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JOSEPH PENNELL (186o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH PENNELL (186o– )  ,
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American artist and author, was born in
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Philadelphia on. the 4th of
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July 186o, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, J . M . Whistler, he afterwards went to
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Europe and made his home in
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London . He produced numerous books (many of them in collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell), but his chief distinction is as an
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original etcher and lithographer, and notably as an illustrator . Their close acquaintance with Whistler led to Mr and Mrs Pennell undertaking a biography of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on the right to use his letters, the
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book was published in 1go8 .

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