Francis Alexander

Francis Alexander

Francis Alexander (February 3, 1800 – 1881) was an American portrait-painter.

He was born in Killingly, Connecticut. Brought up on a farm, he taught himself the use of colors, and in 1820 went to New York City and studied painting with Alexander Robertson. He spent the winters of 1831 and 1832 in Rome. Afterwards, he resided for nearly a decade in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had considerable vogue, and where he painted a portrait of Charles Dickens (1842). He died in 1881 in Florence.

One of his best portraits is that of Mrs. Fletcher Webster, formerly in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. This romantic portrait, in which the sitter appears swathed in ermine, was deaccessioned from the Museum early in the 20th century and returned to descendants in the Sargent family.

External links

* [http://www.qvctc.commnet.edu/brian/KHS/jonline/artist.html Additional Biographical Info.]
* [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=Francis+Alexander&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 Museum of Fine Art, Boston]

References

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