Julian Russell Story

Julian Russell Story studied at Eton College. Training under Jules Lefebvre is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Employment is recorded with Académie Julian. Work by Julian Russell Story is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brandywine Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Distinctions recorded are Legion of Honour.

• Name — Julian Russell Story • Born — 8 September 1857 • Birthplace — Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England • Died — 24 February 1919 • Place of death — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Education — Eton College Brasenose College, Oxford • Field — Painting

Story was born on September 8, 1857, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, to American parents. He was the youngest child of sculptor William Wetmore Story and Emelyn (née Eldredge) Story. Among his siblings was brother Thomas Waldo Story, also a well known sculptor, and sister, Edith Marion (née Story), Marchesa Peruzzi di Medici, the wife of Marquess Simone Peruzzi di Medici. During his stays in Rome, he became close with the Italian painter Antonio Mancini, who painted him twice. Today, one of those portraits is in the Lukas Charles Collection He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford University, England.

In 1891, Story was married to the renowned American soprano Emma Eames, the daughter of an international lawyer. Eames was born in Shanghai, China, and raised in Portland and Bath, Maine. They divorced in 1907 and Emma later married Emilio de Gogorza. In 1909, he married Elaine Sartori Bohlen, the daughter of Victor Alexander Sartori and Annie Lawrence Gordon. Together, they were the parents of: • Emelyn McClellan Florence Story (1912–1946), who married Edward Maynard Ewer, in 1931. • Vera Felicity Story (1918–2001), who married Henry Latrobe Roosevelt Jr., a son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, in 1937. He died in Philadelphia at age 61. He was buried at Chelten Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Artworks of Julian Russel Story • Name of the art — Date — Artist's age — Dimensions — Location — Art • The Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy — 1888 — Approximately 31 — 128 in. x 197 in. — Telfair Museum of Art — • Louisa Dowager Viscountess Wolseley — 1884 — Approximately 27 — Unknown — Victoria and Albert Museum - London (United Kingdom) • Portrait of Count Louis Vorow Zborowski with His Dog — 1898 — Unknown — Unknown — Private collection — • Portrait of Mrs. Frederick Sharon — 1901 — Approximately 44 — Height: 80.01 cm (31.5 in.) Width: 61.28 cm (24.13 in.) — Private collection • Sculptor Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier — Unknown — Unknown — Unknown — Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille (France) — • Portrait of Ernest W. Longfellow — 1892 — Unknown — 55.88 x 45.72 cm (22 x 18 in.) — Museum of Fine Arts Boston —