Background
Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome was born on August 8, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Stephen James (portrait painter) and Elizabeth Anastasia (Moran) F.
Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome was born on August 8, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Stephen James (portrait painter) and Elizabeth Anastasia (Moran) F.
Mother a sister of Thomas Moran, the artist. Studied under South. J. Ferris and Christian Schuessele, in Philadelphia, 1878-1883. At Academie Julien, Paris, under West. Bouguereau, 1884.
Private pupil of J. L. Gerome.
South Kensington Museum, London, 1888.
Mary (deceased). Has devoted attention from 1900 to production of series of paintings of America history, covering period from 1492-1865. In 1917 the city of Philadelphia built a gallery in Congress Hall for accommodation of the entire collection, numbering over 70 subjects, where they now hang. Has made a special study of early types of America vehicles, ships, and ordnance, models of same being now in Congress Hall Museum, Philadelphia, and data filed with National Museum, Washington, and New York History Society.
Presented to the National Museum (Washington), 1927, a collection of over 3,000 etchings, line engravings, mezzotints and lithographs, of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Secretary-treasurer Artists’ Fund Society, Philadelphia Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Annette South. Ryder, May 17, 1894.