A widely traveled and wealthy artist known for his picturesque paintings, especially of Venice, Edward Darley Boit was born in Boston and died in Rome, Italy in 1915. (Some sources list 1916 as the... Read full biography
A widely traveled and wealthy artist known for his picturesque paintings, especially of Venice, Edward Darley Boit was born in Boston and died in Rome, Italy in 1915. (Some sources list 1916 as the death date). He studied at Harvard Law School and then studied art in Paris with Thomas Couture. He... Read full biography
A widely traveled and wealthy artist known for his picturesque paintings, especially of Venice, Edward Darley Boit was born in Boston and died in Rome, Italy in 1915. (Some sources list 1916 as the death date). He studied at Harvard Law School and then studied art in Paris with Thomas Couture. He lived in Newport, Rhode Island from 1864 to 1871 and then went to Europe where he became an expatriate painter, living in France and Italy. However, he visited the United States nearly every year of... Read full biography
A widely traveled and wealthy artist known for his picturesque paintings, especially of Venice, Edward Darley Boit was born in Boston and died in Rome, Italy in 1915. (Some sources list 1916 as the death date). He studied at Harvard Law School and then studied art in Paris with Thomas Couture. He lived in Newport, Rhode Island from 1864 to 1871 and then went to Europe where he became an expatriate painter, living in France and Italy. However, he visited the United States nearly every year of his remaining life. In Paris, he studied with Thomas Couture, and he exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1870s and 1880s, and in 1914 at the Art Institute of Chicago. A close friend of John Singer Sargent, he and Sargent held several joint watercolor... Read full biography
A widely traveled and wealthy artist known for his picturesque paintings, especially of Venice, Edward Darley Boit was born in Boston and died in Rome, Italy in 1915. (Some sources list 1916 as the death date). He studied at Harvard Law School and then studied art in Paris with Thomas Couture. He lived in Newport, Rhode Island from 1864 to 1871 and then went to Europe where he became an expatriate painter, living in France and Italy. However, he visited the United States nearly every year of his remaining life. In Paris, he studied with Thomas Couture, and he exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1870s and 1880s, and in 1914 at the Art Institute of Chicago. A close friend of John Singer Sargent, he and Sargent held several joint watercolor exhibitions in Boston and New York. In fact, Boit became more famous in art history for his association with Sargent than... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (20)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005
Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D
157 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H
282 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists 1860-1915
1989
Lovell, Margaretta
132 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Venice The American View 1860-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Lovell, Margaretta
169 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Index to Artistic Biography (Three Volumes)
1973
Havlice, Patricia Pate
2,315 pages
French Impressionists Influence American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Lowe Art Museum
96 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index