biografia di Harry Ives THOMPSON (1840-1906)

Birth place: West Haven, CT

Death place: West Haven, CT

Addresses: New Haven, CT, 1878-82; Paris, France, 1890

Profession: Portrait and figure painter, teacher

Studied: Benjamin H. Coe, 1861

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1877, 1879-80, 1884; NAD, 1877-90

Comments: Started out as a storekeeper and became an artist in 1861. Taught drawing in New Haven, c.1864 -67, where he gained a local reputation as a portrait painter.

Sources: G&W; French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 147-48; Smith. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 164; Falk, Exh. Record Series.