About Walter Paris

  • Biography from Clevedon Salerooms

    The artwork by Walter Paris was formerly in the collection of Sir Edward Rhodes, whose son, Edward Leyland Rhodes, served in the Great War as a 2nd Lieutenant for the Manchester Regiment. The piece has been passed down through the family, including to Michael Rhodes, a travel cameraman who worked on a project about Lord Mountbatten.
  • Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store

    Watercolorist. Born in London, England in 1842. Paris was a resident of Colorado Springs, CO before visiting the Monterey Peninsula during 1875-76. While there, he shared a studio with his good friend Jules Tavernier. He was an architect with the British government in India during 1886-90 and was again in Colorado in 1891. He became a citizen of the U.S. in 1894 and spent his remaining years in New York and Washington, DC where he died on Nov. 26, 1906. Member: Tile Club (co-founder). Exh: Colton Hall (Monterey), 1875 (solo); CGA, 1875; San Francisco Art Association, 1876. In: Boston Museum; Pioneers' Museum (Colorado Springs); Phoenix Museum; NMAA. Colorado Springs Public Library; Ben; Fid; AAW; AAA 1900-07; SF Call, 11-27-1906 (obit).

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