Painter Frank Weston Benson

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Frank Weston Benson

Living place: Massachusetts

Birthday: 24-3-1862

Global rank: #81113

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Who is Painter Frank Weston Benson?
Popular early 20th-century American artist known for his portraits, watercolors, engravings, and impressionist paintings. His works include "Eleanor", which is part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, collection, and "Summer", which is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum collection.
He received the silver medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle for his painting "The Sisters."
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied art at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at Paris' Académie Julien.

Family life info

He married Ellen Perry Peirson, who became the mother of four children. Benson's 1889 portrait of his wife hangs at Washington DC's National Gallery of Art.

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Her contemporary Mary Cassatt was also a famous American Impressionist painter.

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When was Painter Frank Weston Benson born?
Frank Weston Benson was born in 24-3-1862, death year is , at the age of 162.
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Frank Weston Benson was born in Massachusetts, . is a Painter, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Frank Weston Benson's global rank is 81113 and whose rank is 334 in list of famous Painter.
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Events in 1862 and 24-3

Birthday Frank Weston Benson (24-3) in history

  • Day 24-3 year 1603: Queen Elizabeth passed away at 69 at Richmond Palace after ruling England for more than 40 years. She is buried at Westminster Abbey, London, UK
  • Day 24-3 year 1882: Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus.
  • Day 24-3 year 1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet became the first British film to win an Oscar.
  • Day 24-3 year 1958: Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.
  • Day 24-3 year 1989: In one of worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.
  • Day 24-3 year 1999: NATO begins launching air strikes in an attempt to force Serbia to cease hostilities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
  • Day 24-3 year 2002: Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win a best actress Oscar and Denzel Washington became the second African-American actor to get the best actor award.
  • Day 24-3 year 2004: The notorious Bird family's more than half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post of prime minister in the general election.
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