John White Alexander by Mary Anne Goley5/29/2023 He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design. In 1881 he returned to New York, working as an illustrator for Harper's, as a drawing instructor at Princeton and as a highly successful society portrait painter. In 1879 they traveled to Italy, where Alexander formed friendships with James McNeill Whistler and Henry James. In 1878 he joined a colony of American painters established by Frank Duveneck in Polling, Bavaria. In 1877 he went to Paris for his first formal art training, and then to Munich, where he enrolled at the Kunstakademie under Gyuala Benczúr. He began his career in New York in 1875 as a political cartoonist and illustrator for Harper's Weekly. He was known as an American painter and illustrator. John White Alexander was born in Allegheny, PA on he died in New York on.
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