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| 1858 births | |
| 1923 deaths | |
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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio , he studied with Frank Duveneck in that city. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students to the Royal Academy Of Munich , then spent time in Florence , Italy , returning to Boston in 1883 . He became known as a member of the Boston School led by Edmund Charles Tarbell , focussing on figure painting, and in the 1890s adopting the style of Tonalism . He was a founder of the Ten American Painters , a group of American Impressionist s, in 1897 . A 1904 fire in his Boston studio destroyed several hundreds of his early paintings, including nearly all of his landscapes. He died in Boca Grande, Florida . REFERENCE
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