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| Henry Robertson Blaney (1855-1913)
Henry Blaney was born in Dedham, Massachusetts on January 29, 1855. He was an artist, accomplished in etching and drafting. In 1896 the publishing house of Lee and Shepard printed his book, Old Boston, Reproductions of Etchings in Half-tones which included etchings, photographs, and text by Henry Blaney, as well as “rare wet-plate negatives taken from 1855 to 1869, owned by Mr. Blaney.
A self-taught artist, he exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900. In the Buffalo Exposition in 1901 he received an honorable mention for etchings.
The artist lived for 8 years in Algeria and the Holy Land. His specialty was oriental and tropical subjects in water colors, etching and pen and ink. The artist married circa 1888, Helen Stevens (Greenwood) Farley – he was her second husband. She was also an artist. In June, 1900 they were living in Ipswich, Massachusetts and she died there later that same year. Henry Robertson Blaney died in Yokohama, Japan on July 18, 1913.
Information posted on Ancestry.com by Mr. Chuck Blaney in December of 2008.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, researcher of Lansing, Michigan
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