 Frederic Crowninshield is primarily known as Frederick Crowninshield
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A painter, illustrator, teacher, craftsperson and writer, who had studios in New York City and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Frederick Crowninshield had specialties of mural decoration, stained glass and easel painting.
He served in Rome, Italy as Director of the American Academy, Rome* from 1909-1911. He was a teacher at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1879 to 1885, and also was an author whose books included Mural Painting, A Painter's Moods as well as other volumes of verse.
He studied at Rowbotham in London; Benouville, in Rome; and in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts* with Alexander Cabanel and Thomas Couture.
Memberships included Architectural League* of New York, 1886; National Society of Mural Painters*; Associate member of the National Academy of Design*, 1905; Copley Society*; Fine Arts Federal, New York; American Institute of Architects; and Century Associated
Among his exhibition venues were the Paris Salon*, 1878; Boston Art Club*, 1881; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, 1883, 1885; and Art Institute of Chicago*, 1906.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Donald Kurtz of Art Nouveau Associates has sent the following information to AskART.com
"Crowninshield, Frederic. Painter. Born Boston, 1845, died in 1918. Studied
art, France and Italy. Specialty, mural painting and stained glass windows;
also landscapes in oils and watercolors. Instructor of drawing and painting,
Museum of Fine arts, Boston, 1879-85. Director American Academy in Rome.
Academy of National Arts. Member: National Society Mural Painters; National
Institute Arts and Letters. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts owns his
"Perugia" painted 1911, "Taormina", 1913, and "Capri Cliff" 1916. Elected
Associate Member of National Academy in 1905."
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