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Edwin Howland Blashfield
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or EDWIN HOWLAND BLASHFIELD (1848-), American artist, was born on the 1 5th 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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Edwin Howland Blashfield'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/edwin-howland-blashfield.html. 1910.
