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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
DOCK SCENE, ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| George Grier Bassett b. 1870
George Grier Bassett was born in 1870 in Mannington Township, New Jersey to a prominent Quaker family. His parents were Richard Basset and Lydia Anna Grier Basset. Although not a professional artist, he was a talented amateur painter.
An architect by profession, Bassett was a partner in the Philadelphia firm Baily and Bassett, with offices at 421 Chestnut Street. His firm designed expensive houses in Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Ogontz, and other Pennsylvania towns. The Colonial Revival house “Bettws-y-Coed,” built by Baily and Bassett in 1913-14, now serves as the home of the Psychology and Education Departments of Bryn Mawr College. Basset’s firm also designed the 1908 colonial revival renovations to the Old Salem (NJ) Courthouse near his hometown.
Bassett was a grandson of Jonathan Grier and Lydia Fogg Grier, whose portraits by the Salem, New Jersey artist George Washington Conarroe are owned by the Salem County Historical Society.
Sources:
Palettes of the Past: Salem County Art and Artists (Exhibition catalogue, unpublished, Salem County Historical Society, March – December 2010).
Genealogy.Rootsweb.Ancestry.com (Web). Accessed June 2010.
Bryn Mawr College website (Web). Accessed June 2010.
Information provided by Kate Ogden, Richard Stockton College, New Jersey.
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