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Stephen James Ferris

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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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24 Book References for Stephen James Ferris
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator) Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles 223 Yes
1992 Fryd, Vivien Green Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860 273 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1987 Schwarz-Philadelphia Winter Exhibition American 19th & 20th Century Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Reaves, Wendy Wick American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference 285 No
1982 Dooley, John (Foreward) Sketch Club Tricentennial Year Book A Salute to Philadelphia, 1682-1982 30 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1976 Demetrion, James T. 19th Century American Portraits from Iowa Collections 4 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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