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

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