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Birth
1858 (Richmond, England)
Death
1943
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/New York / England
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marine, coastal views and street landscape painting, teaching
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Henry Bayley Snell was a well-known American impressionist painter from New Hope, Pennsylvania. He was born in England and emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City in 1875 at the age of 17. While studying art, he supported himself working for an engineering firm and a lithography studio. Snell married the artist, Florence Francis in 1888 and began painting in New Hope in 1900, and later moved there around 1926.
Snell is associated with the New Hope Impressionist School. He painted on many trips to Europe and India, and is especially noted for his coastal scenes of Cornwall, England. He also painted harbor scenes of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he co-founded a second art school/colony in 1921 along with Frank Leonard Allen called Boothbay Studios. This school was described in its brochures as a Summer School of Industrial, Normal, and Fine Art, by 1924 the school occupied six buildings along the shore on Boothbay Harbor's east side. He also taught in New York City, Washington, D.C., and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
Source:
Carol And Alan Fisher, "Drawn To Boothbay: Art Colonies Of The Early 1900s, Part II" retrieved from: http://boothbayregister.maine.com/2003-07-10/our_past.html
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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Biography from Schwarz Gallery:
| Henry
B. Snell was the highly respected instructor of landscape painting at
the Philadelphia School of Design for Women for many years. He was born
in England, studied in New York at the Art Students League, and made his
home in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Source: Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia |
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