ROBERT

See also:

• ROBERT REID (1862– )
• REID, SIR GEORGE (1841- )
• REID, SIR ROBERT GILLESPIE (184o-19o8)
• REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858)
• REID, THOMAS (1710-1796)
• REID, THOMAS MAYNE (1818-1883)
• REID, WHITELAW (1837- )

REID (1862– )  , American artist, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., on the 29th of July 1862 . He studied at the art schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Students' League, New York, and under Boulanger and Lefebvre in Paris . His early pictures were figures of French peasants, painted at ftaples, but subsequently he became best known for mural decoration and designs for stained glass . He contributed with others to the frescoes of the dome of the Liberal Arts Building at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893 . Other work is in the Congressional Library, Washing-ton, the Appellate Court House, New York, and the State House, Boston, where are his three large panels, " James Otis Delivering his Speech against the Writs of Assistance," " Paul Revere's Ride " and the " Boston Tea Party." He executed a panel for the American Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition, 1900, and in 1906 he completed a series of ten stained glass windows for a church at Fairhaven, Mass., for the Rogers Memorial . In 1906 he became a full member of the National Academy of Design .