Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in the trompe l'oeil style.

However, his version of trompe l'oeil seemed uniquely his own as his use of color was quite aggressive, and his paintings combined objects rendered in trompe l'oeil with others that were less precise. He had particular skill in detailed arrangement and composition of objects with various textures and reflecting surfaces.

Ramsey received his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then spent over ten years working and travelling in Europe including study in Paris in t...