Artists

Franklin Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted by Captain Gideon Stanwood. He was self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship portraits for which he is best known.  He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes.  He was a sailor by profession and perhaps went to...

Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's...

James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art. Biography Carroll Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September 1852,...

Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of "The Ten", a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a...

As a young man, Beaman had a studio on Tremont Street in Boston.  Although Beaman studied at the Lowell Institute and in Paris in the late 1870s, his preference was for a more rural lifestyle.  He moved to Northfield, Massachusetts where he lived with a hermit atop the mountain back of Northfield village.  In coming down to the village he passed...