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Birth
1838 (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Death
1915 (Munich, Germany)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts/California / Germany
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portrait, narrative, interior painting
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Born in Lowell, MA on Oct. 20, 1838. After his education at the Andover Academy, Neal arrived in San Francisco in 1857 via New Orleans and the Isthmus of Panama. Without the benefit of art training, he quickly established himself as one of the city's most sought after portraitists. Mark Hopkins, D. O. Mills, and Adolph Sutro were three of his sitters.
A wealthy patron financed a trip to Munich in 1861 for formal art training. Entering the Royal Academy, he wed the (showing 500 of 3845 characters). |
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