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BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND (1848– )

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BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND (1848– )

BLASHFIELD, See also:
EDWIN, AEDUINI
EDWIN, JOHN (1749–1790)
EDWIN HOWLAND (1848– ) , See also:

AMERICAN

American artist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 15th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1848 in New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. He was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

BONNAT

Bonnat in See also:

Paris, and became (1888) a member of the See also:

NATIONAL

National See also:

Academy of See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative See also:

WORK

work, marked by rare delicacy and beauty of colouring. He painted mural decorations for a See also:

DOME (Lat domus, house; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

dome in the manufacturers' See also:

BUILDING

building at the See also:

Chicago Exposition of 1893; for the dome of the Congressional library, See also:

Washington; for the capitol at St See also:

Paul, See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota; for the See also:

Baltimore See also:

court-See also:

house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the See also:

GRAND

grand See also:

ball-See also:

ROOM

room of the Waldorf-See also:

ASTORIA

Astoria hotel, the Lawyers' See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club, and the residences of W. K. See also:

VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS (1794–1877)

Vanderbilt and Collis P. See also:

Huntington; and in See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia for the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of See also:

George W. See also:

DREXEL, ANTHONY JOSEPH (1826–1893)

Drexel. With his wife he wrote See also:

ITALIAN

Italian Cities (1900) and edited See also:

VASARI, GIORGIO (1511-1571)

Vasari's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on See also:

ART

art. He became See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists.

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