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Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5 1848 - 1936), American artist, was born in New York City.
He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris, and became (1888) a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative work, marked by rare delicacy and beauty of coloring. He painted mural decorations for a dome in the manufacturer's building at the Chicago Exposition of 1893; for the dome of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; for the capitol at St Paul, Minnesota; for the Baltimore court-house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the grand ball-room of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, the Lawyers' club, and the residences of WK Vanderbilt and Collis P. Huntington; and in Philadelphia for the residence of George W. Drexel.
With his wife he wrote Italian Cities (1900) and edited Vasari's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on art. He became president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
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