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James Carroll Beckwith  American  1852 -1917
Born: Hannibal, Missouri, United States 
Died: New York, New York, United States 
Studied: National Academy of Design 1871
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris 
Instructors: Charles Emile Carolus-Duran 
Walter Shirlaw 
Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat 
Exhibited: Columbian Exposition 1893
Examples of Work: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
Specialty: Painter
Instructor
Muralist
Style/School: Impressionism
Plein Air
Subjects Known For: Landscapes
Genre
Portraits
Memberships: National Academy of Design ANA 1886; NA 1894
American Watercolor Society 
National Institute of Arts and Letters 
Teaching Positions: Art Students League, New York City 1878-1882; 1886-1897
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James Carroll Beckwith was a portrait, genre and landscape painter born in 1852. He studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC, in 1871 as well as Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. While living in Paris, Beckwith shared a studi... (More)

James Carroll Beckwith enjoyed enormous success as a landscape, portrait, and genre painter in the late nineteenth century. Beckwith trained at the National Academy of Design before joining the atelier of Emile Auguste Carolus... (More)

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