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Benjamin Osro Eggleston

Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867 - 1937) was active/lived in New York, Minnesota.  Benjamin Eggleston is known for Landscape, village genre, portrait painting.

BENJAMIN EGGLESTON

Benjamin Osro Eggleston, born at Belvidere, Minnesota on January 22, 1867 was the son of Hubert Newberry Eggleston, a Union Army sergeant, and Caroline Nelson Eggleston.  His father received a soldier's homestead tract in Redwood County, Minnesota.  During his elementary years, Benjamin demonstrated talent and he was encouraged through high school.  Later, he moved to Red Wing, a picturesque town about forty miles from Minneapolis, on the Mississippi River, to open a studio for teaching and for painting portraits.  After having saved some money, Eggleston enrolled in the recently organized Minneapolis School of Fine Art where he studied under the portrait and history painter Douglas Volk (1856-1935), the son of the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895).  Douglas Volk came to Minneapolis in 1868 as first director of the Minneapolis School of Art, which was organized by the recently founded Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts.  Volk   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5732 characters.]  Artist bio

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