An illustrator born in 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Penfield is known, along with William Bradley and Louis Rhead as being in the forefront of the American Art Nouveau movement. His parents were Ellen Lock Moore and Josiah B. Penfield. Ellen was a native of England, and both Edward's father and grandfather, Henry Lewis Penfield, came from Rye, New York.
Edward Penfield was the third of five children, and as a boy his health was not strong. He received his elementary education in Bro (showing 500 of 4699 characters). |
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