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Birth
1828 (St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada)
Death
1901 (Providence, Rhode Island)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts/Rhode Island / Canada
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
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Edward Mitchell Bannister (b. 1828 sometimes listed as 1826 or 1833- d. 1901)
He was the best-known landscape painter
associated with Rhode Island in the late 1800s, and was the first
African-American artist to win national recognition. At the
Philadelphia World Centennial of 1876, Edward Bannister was the only
New England artist to win a bronze medal.
Born and raised in the
small seaport town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, Bannister had a long path to becoming a (showing 500 of 13166 characters). |
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