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Walter Lofthouse Dean (June 4, 1854 - March 13, 1912) was an American marine-landscape painter, commodore of the Boston Yacht Club and Vice President of the Boston Art Club. While Dean is primarily known for marine paintings from the Boston, Massachusetts region, he also developed many charcoal, pen and pencil drawings, watercolors and oil paintings of non-marine topics, including still life, architecture and landscapes. Dean was a recognized artist while he was alive and was listed in the 1903 ''Men of Massachusetts'', along with ''Who's Who in American Art''. Dean's most famous painting, ''Peace'' (see below: ''Peace''), is owned by the US Government and was exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in May–October 1893. == Family == Walter Lofthouse Dean was born on June 4, 1854, in Lowell, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County.〔 "Walter Lofthouse Dean (1854-1912)", FindaGrave.com, Dec. 2010, web: (FG2 ). 〕 He was the third son of Benjamin Dean and Mary Ann (French) Dean, who were related to several of the best-known families of the region. Walter Dean's grandparents, Benjamin Dean and Alice Lofthouse Dean, of Clitheroe, England, moved to the United States of America in 1829, when Benjamin, an engraver and designer, entered the employ of the Merrimack Print Works. Dean's father, Benjamin Dean was born in Clitheroe, England in 1824, and became a prominent Boston lawyer and a US Congressman. His mother, Mary Ann French, was born to Josiah Bowers French, a bank president and former Mayor of Lowell, and his wife, Mary Anne Stevens of Billerica, Massachusetts. Dean had three brothers and two sisters. He never knew his oldest brother, Josiah French Dean, who died before the age of two. His second oldest brother, Benjamin Wheelock Dean, was a contractor who married Annie Page of South Boston. His younger sister, Clitheroe, was born in South Boston and married Charles L. James of Brookline. His youngest brother, Josiah Stevens Dean married May Lillian Smith in 1888 and became a prominent Boston lawyer and judge who died in 1941. Dean's youngest sister, Mary Dean, was born in Lowell and married Walter Tufts.〔 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「Walter Lofthouse Dean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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