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Maxfield Frederick Parrish

Maxfield Frederick Parrish (1870 - 1966) was active/lived in New Hampshire.  Maxfield Parrish is known for Illustration-romanticized scenes, mural painting.

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One of America's best-known and revered illustrators, especially for children's books and magazines, Maxfield Parrish was born into a Philadelphia Quaker family.  His birth name was Frederick Maxfield Parrish, and he later adopted the name Maxfield.

His father, Stephen Parrish, was a successful landscape painter and etcher, and he and Maxfield's mother,  Elizabeth Bancroft Parrish, encouraged their son's artistic talent. Maxfield's father was his his first teacher, and he took his son to tour the museums of Europe when the boy was only ten, and together they painted and sketched.

Initially interested in architecture, young Parrish studied in France, England; at Haverford College; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and at Drexel Institute, where one of his teacher's was illustrator Howard Pyle, later to become a major influence in his work.  Parrish was also much admiring of Edwin Austin Abbey and artist members of the N.C. Wyeth family.

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