Frederick James (artist)

Frederick E. James (c. 1845 – 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions of 18th-century American life.

Frederick James
Bornc. 1845
DiedJuly 17, 1907
NationalityAmerican
Known forpainter
"A Colonial Wedding," 1883.

James was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. He died in Percé, Quebec, Canada.

Portraits by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard, and the Marquis de Lafayette hang in the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia.

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