Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) was an American artist in

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, and New York. He was the son of

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Biography

Ernest Longfellow was born in

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, and raised at Craigie House. He was the second of six children, including his younger sister

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. Educated at

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, he passed the winter of 1865 and '66 in Paris in work and study, and the summers of 1876 and '77 in Villiers-le-Bel under

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.Clement and Hutton. 1879 He married Harriet "Hattie" Spelman in 1868. An 1874 newspaper gossiped about him: "Ernest Longfellow, the son of the poet, is described as a slender, delicate young man, an artist of talent, great at ten-pins, and tip-top at gunning." "His professional life has been spent in Boston, with frequent visits to Europe." In the 1870s he kept a studio on West Street. He exhibited at the

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in 1871 and 1875; the

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gallery in Boston in 1875; the 1876

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in Philadelphia; and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the St. Botolph Club in 1880. He belonged to the

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. He moved to New York around the turn of the century. He died in November 1921 at the Hotel Touraine in Boston. "The funeral was held from the Craigie House; ... services conducted by the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot."Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow. American Art News, Vol. 20, No. 8 (Dec. 3, 1921), p. 6 Longfellow bequeathed some 55 paintings from his collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including works by

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,MFA Boston collections
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, and others.

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Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth 1845-1921 * US National Park Service

* Archives of American Art

* ttp://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/longfellow/travel/17.html Harvard College The Longfellow Family in Italy. Photograph, 1869. Group portrait including Hattie and Ernest Longfellow.

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Image:1849 CharleyLongfellow ErnyLongfellow US NationalParkService.jpg, Portrait of Charley Longfellow (left) and Erny Longfellow (right), 1849. Image:FrederickCrowninshield ErnestLongfellow 19thc.png, Portrait of Ernest Longfellow and Frederick Crowninshield Image:Interior of Temple of Rameses II at Abu-Simbel byErnestLongfellow MFABoston.png, Interior of Temple of Rameses II at Abu-Simbel, by E. Longfellow (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Image:Longfellow-by Ernest Longfellow.jpg, Portrait of H.W. Longfellow by his son, Ernest, 1886 {{DEFAULTSORT:Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth 1845 births 1921 deaths 19th century in Boston 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters Appleton family American art collectors American male painters Artists from Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard College alumni Orientalist painters 20th-century American male artists

Biography

References

Further reading

Works by E.W. Longfellow

Works about E.W. Longfellow

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