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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Henry Boller Pancoast, Jr. (Henry Pancoast) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876. He was a painter of the impressionist style whose work is often mistakenly ascribed to another noted American artist, Morris Hall Pancoast.
Although little is known about Henry Pancoast, he appears to have lived in Philadelphia and Cornwells, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Also, he exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1903-09, 1924-25, and 1930, and was a member of the Philadelphia Art Club.
His landscape, "The Dam, Media, PA ", won a bronze medal in the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition (World's Fair), and his landscape, "November Afternoon", is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Few of Henry Pancoast's paintings have come up for auction. However, it is known he painted landscapes, coastal, harbor, beach, and city scenes in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
Henry Pancoast died in 1962.
Compiled by Brad M. Aron and submitted December 2004.
Sources include:
Who Was Who in American Art, Mantle Fieldings, Davenport's Art Reference,
"The American Paintings in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts" list his date of death).
Godel & Co. Fine Art provided the information regarding the bronze medal Henry Pancoast won for the landscape he exhibited at the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, as they presently are offering this painting for sale.
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