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Alfred Ordway BIOGRAPHY
1819 Lowell, Massachusetts - 1897 Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, cattle, coastals and portrait painting.
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell,... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897.... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) but his specialty seems to be landscapes of the New England area — he was one of the noted White Mountain School painters of the nineteenth century. Landscapes, farms, churches, coastal scenes, rivers, and cattle in... Read full biography
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com. According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) but his specialty seems to be landscapes of the New England area — he was one of the noted White Mountain School painters of the nineteenth century. Landscapes, farms, churches, coastal scenes, rivers, and cattle in pastures are typical of his oeuvre. Some of Ordway's best works, according to Mantle Fielding, were On the... Read full biography
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The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA ˜ Fine Art Consultant www.pkart.com
According to the New York Times (Nov. 18, 1897), Boston artist Alfred T. Ordway was born on March 9, 1819 in Lowell, MA and died of heart disease while visiting a friend in Melrose Highlands, MA on November 17, 1897. Some resources say that Ordway was born in Roxbury, MA and was raised in Lowell, MA where he first received art training in a sign painter's shop. Later, Ordway studied portraiture with George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) but his specialty seems to be landscapes of the New England area — he was one of the noted White Mountain School painters of the nineteenth century.
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