| Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863-1930 | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector Artist | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1863-1930 | ||||||||||||
| city | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||
| state | PA | ||||||||||||
| other cities | Paris, France; | ||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||
| history |
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was a collector and American Historical painter. Ferris was the son of portrait painter Stephen James Ferris (1835-1915) and he inherited his father’s art collection. J L G Ferris was named after one his father’s most admired artists, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Stephen James Ferris’s art collection was given to the Smithsonian (National Museum of American History) by J. L. G. Ferris’s family, between 1927 and 1932. |
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| decades | 1910-1920 1920-1930 |
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| website | http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/the-ferris-collection-of-prints | ||||||||||||
| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:31 | ||||||||||||
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