An American Impressionist painter, he was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1876. (The artist long believed that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but later found evidence about his actual place of birth). Soon after bringing him to the United States in 1884, his mother died, and William Edward Bloomfield was adopted by the Starkweather family of Winchester, Connecticut.
Leaving the United States in 1899, he enrolled at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and there discovered the painting of (showing 500 of 7215 characters). |
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