Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, William Dovener was primarily and illustrator who painted purely for pleasure and never exhibited. He settled in Washington DC where he was a lawyer early in his career and then for 22 years an illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In that capacity, he won a competition for painting the best portrait of the first Secretary of Agriculture. Some of his illustrations were in the July 1914 issue of National Geographic.
He studied at Kenyon Colleg (showing 500 of 759 characters). |
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