About Hugh Henry Breckenridge

  • Biography

    The following biography, submitted November 2002, is from Marian Clark of Colorado. She is a great-grand daughter of the artist.

    Hugh Henry Breckenridge was long associated with Philadelphia as a modernist painter and teacher. From 1887 to 1892, he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught for more than forty years.

    In 1892, he was awarded a scholarship enabling him to study in Paris at the Academie Julian with William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and to travel through Europe, going with the Pennsylvania impressionist Walter E. Schofield (1869-1944).

    His subsequent landscapes, portraits, and figure paintings reveal the influence of impressionism and an overwhelming fasci...

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