Background
Pattison, James William was born on July 14, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Everett (Doctor of Divinity) and Frances (Wilson) P.
Pattison, James William was born on July 14, 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Everett (Doctor of Divinity) and Frances (Wilson) P.
Brother of Everett Wilson P. Educational public schools, Worcester, Massachusetts. Private to sergeant Company G, 57th Massachusetts Infantry in Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865.
Art education under James M. Hart, R. South. Gifford, George Inness, New York, 1866-1867, Albert Flamm, Düsseldorf, and Luigi Chialivia, Paris, 1873-1879.
Painter of figures, domestic animals, landscapes, marines, et cetera Exhibitor at Paris Salon, 1879-1881, at National Academy, New York, many years, at American Water Color Society, New York, 15 years, at Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, many times, Chicago Exposition, 1893, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904 (medal). Also medal at Boston, 1882.
Constant exhibitor at art galleries all over the country.
Director School of Fine Arts, Jacksonville, Illinois, 1884-1896. Faculty lecturer on the collections, The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, since 1896.
Editor Fine Arts Journal, Chicago, August since 1910. President Chicago Society Artists.
Member Municipal Art League of Chicago, Society Western Artists.
Author: Painting in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1901. Painters Since Leonardo, 1904. Home: Park Ridge, Illinois.
Member Municipal Art League of Chicago, Society Western Artists.
Married Elizabeth Abbott Pennell, 1871 (deceased). Married second, Helen Searle, 1876 (deceased. Married 3d, Hortense Roberts, 1905.