VEDDER, ELIHU (1836- )

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VEDDER, ELIHU (1836- ) , American artist, was born in New

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City on the 26th of February 1836. He studied under the genre and historical painter Tompkins H. Matteson (1813-1884), at Sherburne, N.Y., later under Picot, in Paris, and then, in 1857-61, in Italy. After 1867 he lived in Rome, making occasional visits to America. He was elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design, New

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, in 1865. He devoted himself to the painting of genre pictures, which, however, attracted only modest attention until the publication, in 1884, of his illustrations to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyf.m; these immediately gave him a high place in the art world. Important decorative

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came later, notably the painting symbolizing the art of the city of Rome, in the Walker Art Gallery of Bowdoin College, Maine, and the five lunettes (in the entrance

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and the mosaic " Minerva" in the Congressional Library at Washington. Among his better-known pictures are: " Lair of the Sea Serpent," in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; "

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Marsyas," " Cumaean Sibyl," " Nausicaa," in the collection of J Pierpont Morgan; and " Genii and Fisherman," in the collection of Martin Brimmer, Boston.

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