GEORGE W. MAYNARD
1843 - 1923
He began the study of art in the National Academy of Design, New York city, in 1868, and studied under Van Lerius at the Royal Academy at Antwerp and traveled and studied in France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Turkey, Greece and Italy, 1869-74. He became an assistant of John La Farge, with St. Gaudens, Millet and Lathrop, in the interior decoration of Trinity church, Boston, in 1875; engaged in painting portraits; and in 1877 made a special study of mural painting in England, France and Italy. He opened a studio in New York city in 1878; was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880; an associate of the National Academy in 1883, and an Academician in 1885, and was a member of the American Water Color society and president of the Salmagundi Sketch club.
He taught drawing in the Cooper institute and the National Academy, and designed parts of the interior decoration for the Metropolitan opera house, New York; Keith's theatre, Boston; the Ponce de Leon hotel, St. Augustine, Fla.; William Rockefeller's home at Tarrytown, N.Y.; Whitelaw Reid's residence at Tarrytown, N.Y., and the dining-rooms of the Plaza, Imperial and Savoy hotels and the ball-room of Sherry's, New York city. He also received the commission for the decoration of the Agricultural building at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893, and received a medal of honor as one of the designers of the World's Columbian exposition. He made a specialty of portraits and figure group paintings, was awarded the Temple gold medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1884; the medal of honor by the American Art association in 1888; the Evans prize by the American Water Color society, and the Shaw prize by the Society of American Artiste. Besides portraits his paintings include: Vespers at Antwerp (1873) and 1776, exhibited at the Centennial exhibition of 1876; An Ancient Mariner (1883); Strange Gods (1885); The Portrait of a Child (1886); Old and Rare (1887); In Strange Seas (1889); Sappho, The Sirens, and Aurora (1899).
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII
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