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1852 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1911 London, England. Known for: History illustration, figure and mural painting.
Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history... Read full biography
Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history painting and worked their way up the professional ladder to receive the highest honors at the... Read full biography
Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history painting and worked their way up the professional ladder to receive the highest honors at the English court. The path he took, however, was distinctly different from his artistic forebears. Abbey didn't start to paint in oil until he was 40 years of age. Before that time, he had distinguished... Read full biography
Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history painting and worked their way up the professional ladder to receive the highest honors at the English court. The path he took, however, was distinctly different from his artistic forebears. Abbey didn't start to paint in oil until he was 40 years of age. Before that time, he had distinguished himself as an illustrator, becoming one of that field's most celebrated talents at a time when the publishing industry and its use of commercial illustration rapidly ascended to prominence. Born in Philadelphia, Abbey first studied art at the age of... Read full biography
Edwin Austin Abbey was essentially the last in the line of American artists-including Benjamin West, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, and Washington Allston-who went to England to pursue history painting and worked their way up the professional ladder to receive the highest honors at the English court. The path he took, however, was distinctly different from his artistic forebears. Abbey didn't start to paint in oil until he was 40 years of age. Before that time, he had distinguished himself as an illustrator, becoming one of that field's most celebrated talents at a time when the publishing industry and its use of commercial illustration rapidly ascended to prominence. Born in Philadelphia, Abbey first studied art at the age of fourteen, when he took lessons from Isaac L. Williams, a local portrait and landscape painter. Two years later, he entered the publishing firm of Van... Read full biography
Edwin Austin Abbey - Artist Info
About Edwin Austin Abbey: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (16)
All MuseumsBoston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116Brandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719Heckscher Museum of Art
2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The National Museum of American Illustration
Vernon Court
492 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271