Information AboutWilliam Page |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT WILLIAM PAGE | |
| 1811 births | |
| page, william | |
| 1885 deaths | |
| american painters | |
| people from albany, new york | |
| people from staten island | |
| swedenborgians | |
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William Page ( 3 January 1811 in Albany , New York - 1 October 1885 in Tottenville , Staten Island , New York) was an American painter and portrait artist. Page originally studied for the ministry at the Andover Theological Seminary ( 1828 - 1830 ), though in later life he became a Swedenborgian . He received his training in art from Samuel F. B. Morse at the National Academy Of Design , and in 1836 he became a National Academician. Living in Rome from 1849 to 1860 he befriended Robert and Elizabeth Browning , whose portraits he painted. He was also a friend of William Wetmore Story and of James Russell Lowell , who dedicated his first collection of poems to him in 1843 . In 1873 , Page became president of the National Academy of Design. His work includes a painting of Admiral David Farragut at the Battle Of Mobile Bay , the ''Holy Family'' (now at the Boston Athenaeum ) and ''The Young Merchants'' (now at Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts in Philadelphia ), as well as countless portraits, including portraits of William Shakespeare , based on the Becker death mask. He also wrote ''A New Geometrical Method of Measuring the Human Figure'' ( 1860 ). He died in 1885. REFERENCES |
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