Edwin White
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Edwin White (born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877) was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.
Works by White, mostly in storage, are in the collections of Yale; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New-York Historical Society.
[edit] Influential works
- Pocahontas Informing John Smith of the Conspiracy of the Indians
- Washington Resigning his Commission
- Major Anderson Raising the Flag at Fort Sumter 1862.
[edit] Minor works
- Fisher boy, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut. A sentimental genre subject of a boy and his dog.
