About William Hyde

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    William Henry Hyde (1856-1943) was a painter of portraits and landscapes as well as being a popular illustrator for such magazines as Century, Harper's and Scribner's. He studied painting in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Academie Julian.

    He was a member of the Society of American Artists, a group founded in opposition to the more conservative National Academy of Design, although he became an Associate member of the Academy in 1900. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, he exhibited a portrait of his wife. He also exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, where he showed a portrait entitled Vera, ...

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