{"title":"Alexander, John White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn White Alexander (1856-1915)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 7th October 1856. Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents. He became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh at the age of 12. Edward J. Allen (1830-1915), the secretary\/treasurer of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, recognised Alexander's drawing talent while he worked there and adopted him. Allen brought Alexander to the Allen home at \"Edgehill\" where Alexander painted various members of the Allen family, including Colonel Allen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander moved to New York City at the age of 18 and worked in an office at Harper's Weekly, where he was an illustrator and political cartoonist at the same time that Edwin Austin Abbey, Joseph Pennell, Howard Pyle, and other celebrated illustrators worked there. After an apprenticeship of three years, he travelled to Munich for his first formal training. Owing to the lack of funds, he removed to the village of Polling, Bavaria, and worked with Frank Duveneck. They travelled to Venice, where he profited from the advice of Whistler, and then he continued his studies in Florence, the Netherlands, and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1881, he returned to New York City and quickly achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Henry G. Marquand, R.A.L. Stevenson, and James McCosh, the president of Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success and was followed by his immediate election to the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. In 1889 he painted for Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank a well-received portrait of Walt Whitman and one of her husband, Jeremiah Milbank. In 1901 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1902 he became a member of the National Academy of Design, where he served as president from 1909 to 1915. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received the gold medals of the Paris Exposition (1900) and the World's Fair in St. Louis (1904).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1909 the National Arts Club presented a retrospective exhibition of his work that included 63 canvases as well as photographs of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was several times a judge at the annual exhibit of the Carnegie Institution, and in other years he won prizes, once an honourable mention and twice the first prize, the second time in 1911 for Sunlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander was married to Elizabeth Alexander (1866-1947), to whom he was introduced in part because of their shared last name. She was the daughter of James Waddell Alexander (1839-1915), longtime executive of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The Alexanders had one child, the Princeton mathematician James Waddell Alexander II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander died of heart disease at his home in New York City on 31st May 1915. He was buried in Princeton, New Jersey, following a church service in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe served as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1909 until his death.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alexander-john-white-1856-1915-portrait-of-mrs-john-white-alexander-1902","title":"Alexander, John White (1856-1915) - Portrait of Mrs John White Alexander 1902","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by American artist John White Alexander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 4347 pixels wide by 5180 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/alexander-john-white\" title=\"John White Alexander\"\u003eJohn White Alexander\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52940582519114,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Alexander_JohnWhite_1856-1915_-PortraitofMrsJohnWhiteAlexander1902_main.jpg?v=1759348152"},{"product_id":"alexander-john-white-1856-1915-repose-1895","title":"Alexander, John White (1856-1915) - Repose 1895","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by American artist John White Alexander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5117 pixels wide by 4200 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/alexander-john-white\" title=\"John White Alexander\"\u003eJohn White Alexander\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61364216103242,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Alexander_JohnWhite_1856-1915_-Repose1895_main_a9fb771c-dcd1-475e-b99d-ce503e66f5dc.jpg?v=1773793688"},{"product_id":"alexander-john-white-1856-1915-mrs-henry-w-draper-1888","title":"Alexander, John White (1856-1915) -  Mrs Henry W. 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