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Edwin Tryon Billings (1824-1893) or E.T. Billings was a portrait painter in 19th-century United States. He lived in Montgomery, Alabama; Worcester, Massachusetts; and in Boston. Among his numerous portrait subjects were Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garrison and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ==Biography== Billings was born November 20, 1824, to wheelwright Ira Billings and Eunice Tryon of Massachusetts.〔George Sheldon. History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Deerfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall & co., 1896〕 He lived in Montgomery, Alabama, intermittently c. 1850-1859;〔E.T. Billings Park, age 27, male, birthplace Massachusetts. cf. (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/census/1850/city/pgw3-14.txt )〕 and in Worcester, Massachusetts, c. 1854-1856.〔Worcester directory, 1856〕 He "first visited Worcester in 1854. Billings painted several important Worcester residents, including John Davis and Stephen Salisbury. His work hung in many public buildings including the Worcester County Courthouse and Mechanics Hall."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Calvin Willard )〕 He moved to Boston in the 1860s, working in the Studio Building on Tremont Street c. 1864-1891.〔Boston Directory. 1864〕〔Boston Almanac. 1865, 1875, 1888, 1889, 1891〕 In the 1874 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Billings showed several paintings, including "Child and Kitten," and "Children and Rabbits."〔12th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, at Faneuil and Quincy halls, Boston, September and October, 1874. Boston: Mudge, 1874〕 His work also appeared in the 1887 National Academy of Design exhibit.〔The Theatre, v.3, no.7, May 2, 1887〕 Billings married Frances E. Keller in 1867.〔 Friends included painter George Fuller, with whom he travelled in the southern United States.〔Sarah Burns. A Study of the Life and Poetic Vision of George Fuller (1822-1884). American Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1981)〕〔Sarah Burns. Images of Slavery: George Fuller's Depictions of the Antebellum South. American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983)〕〔Helen Mary Knowlton. Art-life of William Morris Hunt. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1899〕 Among Billings' possessions was a copy of Walt Whitman's ''Two Rivulets,'' annotated by Whitman, and notably auctioned for a relatively high sum in 1909.〔Sell a book Whitman set up: poet's own copy of ''Two Rivulets'' brings $137.50 at auction. New York Times, Nov. 7, 1909.〕〔"... A remarkably interesting Walt Whitman Association work, his own copy of ''Two Rivulets'', of which only one hundred copies were issued, and for which he helped set the type in the printing office at Camden, N. J. in 1876. This copy contains many alterations and additions in the author's autograph for a second edition of ''Two Rivulets,'' which edition, however, never appeared. Whitman presented this copy to Sidney Morse, the sculptor, and later it passed into the possession of E.T. Billings, the Boston artist. It brought $137.50." cf. "Rare editions sold: J. Chester Chamberlain Library." American Art News, Vol. 8, No. 5 (Nov. 13, 1909)〕 Portrait subjects included: * Ira Billings, father of E.T. Billings〔Catalogue of the collection of relics in Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass., 2nd ed. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1908〕 * James Freeman Clarke〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Boston Public Library )〕 * Alpheus Crosby〔George Hill Evans. Catalogue of portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College. 1901. (Google books )〕 * Thomas Russell Crosby〔Evans. 1901〕 * John Davis〔Paine. Portraits and busts in possession of the American Antiquarian Society, and of other associations in Worcester, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Jan. 1876〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Portraits/johndavis.htm )〕 * George Fuller〔"The South Gallery." National Academy Notes including the Complete Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, National Academy of Design, No. 7 (1887)〕 * Helen Eliza Benson Garrison, wife of W.L. Garrison〔(New York Historical Society ) Retrieved 2010-10-02〕 * William Lloyd Garrison〔〔Words of Garrison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905〕 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Harvard University )〕 * Abraham Lincoln〔 * Maria Mitchell〔Margaret W. Rossiter. Women scientists in America: struggles and strategies to 1940. JHU Press, 1984〕 * Andrew Preston Peabody〔Edward J. Young. Memoir of Rev. Andrew P. Peabody. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 11, 1896〕 * Abigail Lord Rogers * Stephen Salisbury〔 * Daniel Webster * Calvin Willard〔 ;Portraits by E.T. Billings Image:William Lloyd Garrison by Edwin T Billings NYHistoricalSociety.png|Portrait of W.L. Garrison, 19th century (New York Historical society) Image:1889 OWHolmes byETBillings.png|Portrait of O.W. Holmes Sr., 19th century Image:Charles Gideon Putnam MD ca1860s by Edwin T Billings HistoricNewEngland.png|Portrait of Charles Gideon Putnam, MD, c. 1860s (Historic New England) Image:DanielWebster by Edwin T Billings.png|Portrait of Daniel Webster, 19th century Image:Isaac Adams by Edwin T Billings.png|Portrait of Isaac Adams, 19th century 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Tryon Billings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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