Samuel Lancaster Gerry
Illustration — Rural Homestead, 1840, by S.L. Gerry Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813–1891) was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits and also landscapes of the White Mountains and other locales in New England. He was affiliated with the New England Art Union, and the Boston Artists' Association.
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- 1813 · Boston.
- Died
- 1891
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- United States
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- painter
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Illustration — Rural Homestead, 1840, by S.L. Gerry Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813–1891) was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits and also landscapes of the White Mountains and other locales in New England. He was affiliated with the New England Art Union, and the Boston Artists' Association.
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In 1857 he co-founded the Boston Art Club. Samuel Lancaster Gerry was born in Boston, Gerry was self-taught as an artist. He showed works in many public settings, such as the 1841 exhibit of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; and an 1879 exhibit of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He attended the 1860 convention of the National Art Association in Washington, DC. Students of Gerry included H. Frances Osborne, Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin, Fannie Elliot Gifford, Charles Wesley Sanderson, and J. With the exception of three years abroad, his professional life was passed chiefly in Boston.
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1813
Samuel Lancaster Gerry born at Boston.
1891
Samuel Lancaster Gerry died.
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