Background
Albert, Ernest was born on August 15, 1857 in Brooklyn. Son of Daniel Webster and Harriet Dunn (Smith) Brown.
landscape artist scene designer
Albert, Ernest was born on August 15, 1857 in Brooklyn. Son of Daniel Webster and Harriet Dunn (Smith) Brown.
Student Brooklyn Institute School of Design.
With Harley Merry, productions for Park and Union Square theaters. Scenic artist, art director Pope’s Theater, Saint Louis. With firms Noxon, Albert & Toomey and Albert, Grover & Burridge, 1885.
Furnished sets for Hamlet at opening of Chicago Opera House.
Sets include Shakespearean productions, Babes in the Wood, Supremacy of the Sun, Ben Hur. Designed and painted stage sets for outstanding actors in New York, 1894-1909, landscape painter from 1909-1946.
A founder and 1st president Allied Artists of America.
Clubs: National Arts, Salmagundi.
Married Annie Elizabeth Bagwell, June 6, 1881 (died 1925). Married second, Lissa Bell Walker, 1927. Children: Ruby Frances, Elsie, Edith Dorothy, Ernest.