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PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 450 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885) , American artist, was born at Albany, New
York
 , on the 3rd of January 1811. He studied for the ministry at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1828-183o and in later life became a Swedenborgian. He received his training in art from S. F. B. Morse and in the schools of the National Academy of Design, and in 1836 became a National Academician. From 1849 to 186o, he lived in Rome, where he painted portraits of his friends Robert and Elizabeth Browning. The first collection of
Lowell
 's Poems (1843) was dedicated to Page, who was also a friend of W. W. Story. In 1871-1873 he was president of the National Academy of Design. He died at Tottenville, Staten Island, New
York
 , on the 1st of October 1885. Besides numerous portraits he painted " Farragut at the Battle of Mobile," belonging to the Tsar of Russia; a " Holy Family," in the Boston
Athenaeum
 ; and " The
Young
  Merchants," at the
Pennsylvania
  Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. He modelled and painted several portraits of Shakespeare, based on the Becker " death mask." He wrote A New Geometrical Method of Measuring the Human Figure (186o).


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