Birth place:  Leesburg, VA

Addresses: Fort Washington, PA

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: PAFA, 1887; Académie Julian, Paris, with Bouguereau, Ferrier, and Doucet in Paris, 1892.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1889-1937, 1889 (1st Toppan prize), became regular exhibitor, 1894, 1904 (solo), 1917 (Stotesbury prize), 1919 (gold med.), 1920 (gold med.), 1934 (retrospective of 96 paintings); Atlanta Expo, 1895 (med.); AIC; Boston AC, 1896, 1899, 1905-1907; Phila. AC, 1896-on,1907 (gold); SAA, 1897-98, 1905; Cinci. AM, 1898-on; NAD, 1898-1936; CI, 1899-1925; Paris Expo, 1900 (prize); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (med); S. Wash. A., 1903 (prize), 1927 (med.); St. Louis AM, 1897-on; St. Louis Expo., 1904 (med.); Worcester AM, 1906, 1930; Wash. WCC, 1908 (prize); Buenos Aires Expo., 1910 (med.); St. Botolph Cl., Boston (solo); P.-P. Expo., San Fran., 1915 (gold); Corcoran Gal., 1907-37 (Clark bronze medal, 1916); AFA touring exh.; Buffalo FA Acad., 1901-31; Nebraska AA, 1901; Baltimore WCC, 1903-14; Minneapolis Soc. FA, 1903, 1906, 1927; Rochester Mem. AG, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1927; Cleveland MA, 1906-32; Westchester AC, 1908-17; New Orleans AA, 1913; Albright-Knox AM, Buffalo, 1915-28; Charcoal Cl., Baltimore, 1915; Detroit IA, 1915-30; Peabody Inst., Baltimore, 1916-17; Dallas Fair, 1916; RISD, 1917, 1931; TMA, 1917-29; Canadian Nat'l Exh., Toronto, 1918; Musée Luxembourg Exh., Paris, 1919; Kansas City FA Inst., 1920; Univ. Nebraska, 1920; Milch Gal., NYC, 1921; Springfield A Lg (OH), 1921; CAFA, 1921-27; Providence AC, 1922-32; North Shore AA, 1926-35; Louisville AA, 1927; San Diego AG, 1929, 1932; LACMA, 1929; Macbeth Gal., NYC, 1929; Dayton AI, 1931; WMAA, 1934; Locust Cl., 1926 (gold, prize); Maryland Inst., 1919 (solo); Wildenstein Gal., NYC, 1927 (solo); Phila. Art Alliance, 1928 (solo), 1938 (memorial); Grand Rapids AG, 1928 (solo); Valley House Gal., Dallas, TX, 1996 (retrospective). In total, more than thirty solo exhibitions.

Member: Phila Sketch Cl., 1896; ANA, 1913; NYWCC, 1897; Phila. WCC; CAFA; Wash. SA; SSAL; North Shore AA; AFA; Phila Art Cl. (bd. dir.); Municipal Art Jury of Phila. plus many other juries.

Work: Jefferson Medical Col., Col. Pharmacy, Col. Physicians, Univ. Pa.; Hist. Soc., Pa. Hospital, Philosophical Soc., City Hall, all in Philadelphia; Univ. Va.; State House, Hartford; capitol, Harrisburg, PA; St. Louis Cl.; Phila. AC; University Cl., Indianapolis; SFMA; LACMA; Court House, Reading, PA; NOMA; PAFA.

Comments: An important early modernist painter and highly influential teacher. He opened his first studio in Philadelphia with Wm. J. Edmonson, 1888. He was one of the principal instructors at PAFA, 1894-1937. He taught summer classes at Pt. Pleasant, NJ, 1896; opened the Darby Summer Sch. of Painting with Anshutz, 1900, which they re-opened in Fort Washington, 1902; directed the Maryland IA, 1919-on; and directed the Breckenridge Sch. A., E. Gloucester, MA, 1920-37.

Sources: WW37; exh. cat., Valley House Gal., Dallas, TX (1996)

Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.