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VEDDER, ELIHU (1836- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VEDDER, ELIHU (1836- ) , See also:American artist, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City on the 26th of See also:February 1836. He studied under the genre and See also:historical painter See also:Tompkins H. Matteson (1813-1884), at Sherburne, N.Y., later under Picot, in See also:Paris, and then, in 1857-61, in See also:Italy. After 1867 he lived in See also:Rome, making occasional visits to See also:America. He was elected to full membership in the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New York, in 1865. He devoted himself to the See also:painting of genre pictures, which, however, attracted only modest See also:attention until the publication, in 1884, of his illustrations to the Rubaiyat of See also:Omar Khayyf.m; these immediately gave him a high See also:place in the See also:art See also:world. Important decorative See also:work came later, notably the painting symbolizing the art of the city of Rome, in the See also:Walker Art See also:Gallery of See also:Bowdoin See also:College, See also:Maine, and the five lunettes (in the entrance See also:hall) symbolical of See also:government, and the See also:mosaic " See also:Minerva" in the Congressional Library at See also:Washington. Among his better-known pictures are: " Lair of the See also:Sea See also:Serpent," in the See also:Boston Museum of See also:Fine Arts; " See also:Young See also:Marsyas," " Cumaean Sibyl," " See also:Nausicaa," in the collection of J Pierpont See also:Morgan; and " Genii and Fisherman," in the collection of See also:Martin Brimmer, Boston.

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