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Birth
1869 (Baltimore, Maryland)
Death
1941 (Newton Centre, Massachusetts)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts
Often Known For
figure, genre, portrait and landscape painting
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Categories of Interest
Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
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Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes.
In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of P (showing 500 of 8567 characters). |
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