Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870 – 1937), was an American painter and art instructor, who championed the artistic movements from impressionism to modernism. Breckenridge taught for more than forty years at the

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, becoming the school's Dean of Instruction in 1934. He also taught from 1899 to 1918 at the Darby School of Art, which he co-founded with Thomas Anshutz (1851-1912), and from 1920 to 1937 at his own Breckenridge School of Art in

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Biography

Breckenridge was born on October 6, 1870, in Leesburg, Virginia. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he met first met

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. In 1892, he traveled to Paris where he studied under Adolphe William Bouguereau. He travelled through Europe with his colleague Walter E. Schofield. In 1894 when he returned to Philadelphia he began his career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where he would teach for more than forty years. Breckenridge opened his own school in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Breckenridge School of Art, where he taught summer classes every year from 1920 to 1937. Breckenridge exhibited widely from 1896 until his death, starting at the

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and, towards the end of his life, in 1934, at the

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. His work was included in the 1926 Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition. Breckenridge was a member of the

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, Philadelphia Sketch Club, and the Arts Club of Philadelphia. He died on November 4, 1937, in Philadelphia, while he was still on the faculty of the PAFA. File:Hugh Henry Breckenridge, White Phlox, 1906, oil on canvas, Terra Foundation for American Art.jpg, ''White Phlox'', 1906.

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, Chicago, Illinois File:The Pestilence (formerly War).jpg, ''The Pestilence (formerly War)'', c.1918.

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File:The Cape Ann Shore.jpg, ''The Cape Ann Shore'', 1924.

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, Gloucester, Massachusetts

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* Sarah Baker *

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* Maude Drein Bryant * Arthur Beecher Carles * Elizabeth Kitchenman Coyne * Edith Emerson * Nancy Maybin Ferguson * Allan Freelon * Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer * Marie Hull * Thomas Lorraine Hunt * Susette Schultz Keast * Harriet Randall Lumis *

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* Delle Miller * Fritz Pfeiffer * Mary Elizabeth Price * Leopold Seyffert * Mary Given Sheerer *

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* Ben Solowey

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