Background
He was born on the 15th of December 1848 in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.
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He was born on the 15th of December 1848 in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.
He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts after initial coursework in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris.
After studying in Paris he remained abroad until 1881, traveling, painting, and exhibiting his work in salon shows. 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.
He served on the U. S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1912–16.
Together with his wife they wrote Italian Cities (1900) and translated Vasari's Lives of the Painters (4 vols. , 1897).
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He was a member of numerous arts organizations, including the National Academy of Design, the National Society of Mural Painters in which he served as President from 1909 to 1914.
He married Evangeline Wilbour in 1881.