Background
Howland, Alfred Cornelius was born on February 12, 1838 in Walpole, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Aaron P and Huldah (Burke) H.
Howland, Alfred Cornelius was born on February 12, 1838 in Walpole, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Aaron P and Huldah (Burke) H.
Graduate Walpole Academy. Studied art in the United States. Also at Academy of Düsseldorf, under Professor Andreas Müller.
In private studios under Professor Flamm, and several years under Emil Lambinet at Paris.
As youth, he worked as an engraver in Boston and a lithographer in New New York Next few years he spent in Paris and worked with French Barbizon School painters, Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau. He returned to America in 1865 and worked in New York and Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He is best known for genre paintings, landscapes and portraits.
He died March 17, 1909 in Pasadena, California.
Howland was a member of the National Academy of Design and was member of the Academy council from 1880 to 1884.
Married Clara Ward, 1871.