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Birth
1851 (Hudson, Michigan)
Death
1906 (Windsor, Vermont)
Lived/Active
Vermont
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Frances C. Lyons Houston was born in Hudson, Michigan in 1851. As a young woman she studied in Paris at the Academie Julian with Jean-Leon Gerome, Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. Upon her return to America in 1874 she married William C. Houston. Mrs. Houston, primarily a portrait painter, continued to exhibit her work, and she enjoyed favorable reviews in the United States and abroad and received many honors for her paintings.
Her obituary in a Boston newspaper stated, "She (showing 500 of 2760 characters). |
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