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Stephen James Ferris

Stephen James Ferris (1835 - 1915) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Stephen Ferris is known for Female figure, portrait and genre painting, etching.

A portrait painter and etcher, Stephen Ferris studied at the Pennsylvania Academy, with Samuel Waugh for two years in Bordentown, New Jersey and in Europe. He became a teacher at the Philadelphia School of Design for women for 26 years, and was an engraver for various publishers.

His son, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, and daughter, May Electa Ferris, were also artists. His wife, Elizabeth Moran Ferris was the sister of artists Edward and Thomas Moran.

Ferris painted more than 2000 portraits and became a proficient etcher, having seen with Thomas Moran a demonstration of this skill in 1866 by John Sartain, the veteran engraver and mezzotinter. However, it was Joseph Pennell who started Ferris on his career as an etcher.

In 1875, Ferris collaborated with Peter Moran and produced the etching The Chariot Race in the Circus Maximus, which was heralded as "the most important etching yet produced in America." He frequently demonstrated etching techniques, often at the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1516 characters.]  Artist bio

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