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1856 Foxcroft, Maine - 1936 San Antonio, Texas. Known for: Portrait, interiors, immigrant genre, history and animal painting, art restoration.
Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with... Read full biography
Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with his father. Harris studied in Paris in 1875 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and with Alexandre Cabanel. He... Read full biography
Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with his father. Harris studied in Paris in 1875 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and with Alexandre Cabanel. He also traveled in Spain, Sicily, Italy and North Africa; by 1882, he was returned to the United States, settling in New York City. There he acquired a modest reputation for Italian immigrant genre... Read full biography
Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with his father. Harris studied in Paris in 1875 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and with Alexandre Cabanel. He also traveled in Spain, Sicily, Italy and North Africa; by 1882, he was returned to the United States, settling in New York City. There he acquired a modest reputation for Italian immigrant genre scenes and paintings of historical Colonial Dutch subjects, an interest that likely led him to the profession of his later years, which was restoration, copying and conservation of historical paintings. In this capacity as restorer, he worked closely... Read full biography
Painter, craftsperson and art restorer, Charles Xavier Harris was born 1856 in Foxcroft, Maine. He spent his childhood in Minneapolis from where he did a lot of traveling in the United States with his father. Harris studied in Paris in 1875 at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts and with Alexandre Cabanel. He also traveled in Spain, Sicily, Italy and North Africa; by 1882, he was returned to the United States, settling in New York City. There he acquired a modest reputation for Italian immigrant genre scenes and paintings of historical Colonial Dutch subjects, an interest that likely led him to the profession of his later years, which was restoration, copying and conservation of historical paintings. In this capacity as restorer, he worked closely with the Art House Gallery in New York and the collection of Thomas B. Clarke, an art dealer and patron of artists contemporary... Read full biography