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BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND (1848 )

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 43 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND (1848 ) , American artist, was born on the 15th of December 1848 in New
York
  City. He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New
York
 . For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative
work
 , marked by rare delicacy and beauty of colouring. He painted mural decorations for a
dome
  in the manufacturers' building at the Chicago Exposition of 1893; for the
dome
  of the Congressional library, Washington; for the capitol at St Paul, Minnesota; for the
Baltimore
  court-house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the grand ball-room of the Waldorf-
Astoria
  hotel, the Lawyers' club, and the residences of W. K. Vanderbilt and Collis P. Huntington; and in Philadelphia for the residence of George W. Drexel. With his wife he wrote Italian Cities (1900) and edited
Vasari
 's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on art. He became president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists.


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