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Birth
1828 (Livonia, New York)
Death
1894 (Santa Barbara, California)
Lived/Active
Illinois/California
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Henry Chapman Ford was best known for his paintings of the entire chain
of twenty-one California missions. He was born in Livonia, New
York in 1828, but he pursued his studies in Paris and Florence during
the late 1850's.
He was a Civil War illustrator and veteran,
and as soon as he was discharged from service, he settled in Chicago,
Illinois. In Chicago, Ford became an accomplished landscapist,
"the first professional landscape painter in that city" (Taft. 294) He
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