Arter was from Hanoverton, Ohio, the son of a farmer.  Despite his father’s determination to have his son follow in his footsteps, the lad made his way to Cincinnati where he made a living as a flower painter and by teaching others.  Then in Paris he studied under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, who taught hundreds of young, aspiring Americans at the Académie Julian.  In the Paris Salon of 1888 Arter exhibited Interior: Picardie.  Love Letter and (showing 500 of 2377 characters).