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ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER, See also:FRANCIS (1800—1881) , See also:American portrait-painter, was See also:born in See also:Windham See also:county, See also:Connecticut, in See also:February 1800. Brought up on a See also:farm, he taught himself the use of See also:colours, and in 1820 went to New See also:York See also:City and studied See also:painting with Alexander See also:Robertson. He spent the winters of 1831 and 1832 in See also:Rome, and then for nearly a See also:decade he lived in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, where he had considerable See also:vogue, and where in 1842 he painted a portrait of See also:Charles See also:Dickens. One of his best portraits is that ofMrs See also:Fletcher See also:Webster in the Boston Museum of See also:Fine Arts. He died in 1881 in See also:Florence.

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