Biography from Cape Cod Picture Framing:
| Warren, A. Coolidge: Engraver. Born in Boston, Mass in 1918; died in New York in 1904. Mr. Warren was the son of Asa Warren, a portrait and miniature painter, and was apprenticed in 1833 to Bigelow Bros., jewelers, of Boston.
Showing a decided inclination towards engraving, he was placed with the Boston engraver George G. Smith. At the end of his apprenticeship, Warren spent another year under the tuition of Joseph Andrews, and he became a reputable line-engraver of vignettes and book illustrations.
For a number of years he was in the employ of the New England Bank Note Co. and the Boston publishers, Ticknor & Fields. As the result of too much night work he was compelled to abandon engraving for about five years, and in this interval he drew upon wood for other engravers. In 1863 Mr. Warren removed to New York and engraved for the Continental Bank Note Co. and book publishers. In June 1899, he entirely lost sight of one eye and was compelled to permanantly abandon his profession. He occupied his later years in painting and also did illustration including the first edition of poems by John Greenleaf Whittier.
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