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Verner Moore White (October 5, 1863 - August 30, 1923), born Thomas Verner Moore White but informally known as Verner White, was an American landscape and portrait painter. White painted works for many of the business and political leaders of his time including commissions for three United States Presidents. ==Background and early career== White was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia to Thomas and Alice White. His father, Thomas Ward White, was a Presbyterian chaplain in the American Civil War and later served as President of the Reidville Female College and the Greensboro Female College in South Carolina.〔Forrester-O’Brien, Esse. ''Art and Artists of Texas''. Tardy Publishing Company, 1935, p. 222-223.〕 White was taught by private tutor until when at seventeen he attended Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee to study art.〔Baker, James Graham. ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' Vol CXIII, April, 2010, p. 423.〕 White graduated in 1884 to become a full-time artist in DeLand, Florida. The forests and swamps of north Florida and south Georgia were the subjects of many of White's early works as he developed his interest and skill in landscape painting during this period.〔Forrester-O’Brien, Esse. Art and Artists of Texas. Tardy Publishing Company, 1935, p. 222-223.〕 In 1885, White turned his attentions to portraiture when he opened a studio in Mobile, Alabama. While in Mobile, White painted portraits of some of the most influential people in The South including his painting of the last live portrait of Jefferson Davis, the former President of the Confederacy.〔Baker, James Graham. ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' Vol CXIII, April, 2010, p. 423.〕 Jefferson Davis' daughter, Winnie Davis, had studied in Germany and France and recommended that White go to Europe in order to further study his craft before completing her portrait.〔Forrester-O’Brien, Esse. Art and Artists of Texas. Tardy Publishing Company, 1935, p. 222-223.〕 In 1887, White took her advice and moved to Europe to further his artistic studies. White studied in Paris for four years, and spent three more years traveling and painting in other European cities including in Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Liege, Rouen, Biarritz and Pau.〔''The National Cyclopedia of American Biography'' Volume XX. James T. White & Company, Publisher, 1929, p. 476.〕 While in Biarritz, White painted ''The Basque Shepherd'', a painting of the dog of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, of Russia. The $300 sale of that painting to the Grand Duke financed his remaining travels, and for the rest of his career White would have an affinity for the painting of hunting dogs.〔''The National Cyclopedia of American Biography'' Volume XX. James T. White & Company, Publisher, 1929, p. 476.〕 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「Verner Moore White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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