Born in Princeton, Massachusetts, Edward Savage was a self-taught
portraitist whose subject included George Washington. It is
possible he copied John Singleton Copley's work to learn
portraiture. In the mid-1770s, he began his career in Boston and
then went to New York to paint George Washington's portrait,
commissioned by Harvard University.
In 1790, John Adams
commissioned him to do portraits of George and Martha Washington.
From 1791 to 1793, he studied abroad (showing 500 of 1382 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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