John Elliott (artist)

John Elliott (artist)

John Elliott (1858-1925) was an artist, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Carolus-Duran. In 1878, he went to Rome to study and there met his future wife, Maud Howe, Pulitzer-prize-winning American writer and the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Works

* "War Portrait", a red-chalk drawing of the Lafayette Escadrille and other Americans who died in the First World War, hangs in the National Museum of American Art, Washington.
* "Diana of the Tides", a mural in the National Museum.


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