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William L'Engle BIOGRAPHY
1884 Jacksonville, Florida - 1957 Truro, Massachusetts. Known for: Abstract and realist painting-figure, landscape, genre.
The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created:... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created: http://www.lenglefinearts.com/biographies.html. William J. L'Engle, Jr., was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884, a descendant of... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created: http://www.lenglefinearts.com/biographies.html. William J. L'Engle, Jr., was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884, a descendant of the Fatios, an historic name and prominent family. Francis Philip Fatio, Sr. (1724-1811), a Swiss native, brought his family and personal possessions to nearby St. Augustine and then developed his... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created: http://www.lenglefinearts.com/biographies.html. William J. L'Engle, Jr., was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884, a descendant of the Fatios, an historic name and prominent family. Francis Philip Fatio, Sr. (1724-1811), a Swiss native, brought his family and personal possessions to nearby St. Augustine and then developed his own plantation in Nueva Suiza, now known as Switzerland, Florida, on the St. John's River, about 8 years after Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763. After obtaining a crown grant of 10,000 acres, Fatio imported materials from England and built... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created: http://www.lenglefinearts.com/biographies.html. William J. L'Engle, Jr., was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884, a descendant of the Fatios, an historic name and prominent family. Francis Philip Fatio, Sr. (1724-1811), a Swiss native, brought his family and personal possessions to nearby St. Augustine and then developed his own plantation in Nueva Suiza, now known as Switzerland, Florida, on the St. John's River, about 8 years after Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763. After obtaining a crown grant of 10,000 acres, Fatio imported materials from England and built a country estate where he lived the life of a frontier baron. The plantation buildings were destroyed during the East Florida patriot revolt... Read full biography
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The following information, submitted by Daniel L'Engle Davis, grandson of the artist, is from the biography he wrote and published on the website he created: http://www.lenglefinearts.com/biographies.html
William J. L'Engle, Jr., was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 22, 1884, a descendant of the Fatios, an historic name and prominent family. Francis Philip Fatio, Sr. (1724-1811), a Swiss native, brought his family and personal possessions to nearby St. Augustine and then developed his own plantation in Nueva Suiza, now known as Switzerland, Florida, on the St. John's River, about 8 years after Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763. After obtaining a crown grant of 10,000 acres, Fatio imported materials from England a...But wait, there's more...
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