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DWIGHT WILLIAM TRYON (1849- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DWIGHT See also:WILLIAM See also:TRYON (1849- )  , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, on the 13th of See also:August 1849 . At the See also:age of twenty-five he See also:left his position as a clerk in a See also:Hart-See also:ford See also:publishing See also:house tc devote himself entirely to See also:art, and two years afterwards went to See also:Paris, where he became a See also:pupil of the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, under J. de la Chevreuse, See also:Charles See also:Daubigny and A . Guillemet . A skilful landscape painter, New See also:England provided his best subjects . He first exhibited at the See also:Salon in 1881, and in the same See also:year returned to the See also:United States, settling first in New See also:York See also:City; in 1882-1886 he was director of the Hartford School of Art, and in 1886 became See also:professor of art at See also:Smith See also:College . He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1882), a See also:National Academician (1891), and a member of the American See also:Water Color Society .

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