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Julian Russell Story (September 8, 1857 – February 24, 1919) was an American painter.


Early life

Story was born on September 8, 1857, in
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,
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, to American parents. He was the youngest child of sculptor
William Wetmore Story William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor. Life and career William Wetmore Story was the son of U.S. Supreme Court judge Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story. ...
and Emelyn (
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Eldredge) Story. Among his siblings was brother Thomas Waldo Story, also a well known sculptor, and sister, Edith Marion (née Story), Marchesa Peruzzi di Medici, the wife of Marquess Simone Peruzzi di Medici. During his stays in Rome, he became close with the Italian painter
Antonio Mancini Antonio Mancini (14 November 1852 – 28 December 1930) was an Italian painter. Biography Mancini was born in Rome, Papal States, and showed precocious ability as an artist. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Art ...
, who painted him twice. Today, one of those portraits is in the Lukas Charles Collection He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford University, England.


Personal life

In 1891, Story was married to the renowned American soprano
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, the daughter of an international
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. Eames was born in
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, China, and raised in
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and
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. They divorced in 1907 and Emma later married Emilio de Gogorza. In 1909, he married Elaine Sartori Bohlen, the daughter of Victor Alexander Sartori and Annie Lawrence Gordon. Together, they were the parents of: * Emelyn McClellan Florence Story (1912–1946), who married Edward Maynard Ewer, in 1931. * Vera Felicity Story (1918–2001), who married Henry Latrobe Roosevelt Jr., a son of
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Henry L. Roosevelt, in 1937. He died in
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at age 61. He was buried at Chelten Hills Cemetery in Philadelphia.


Artworks


See also

* List of painters by name *
Lists of painters by nationality Lists of painters by nationality cover painters, and are organized by region and nationality. US and Canada * American painters (before 1900) * American painters (1900–present) *Canadian painters Europe * Albanian painters * Arme ...


References


External links


John Russell Story paintings
at the BBC {{DEFAULTSORT:Story, Julian Russell 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters World's Columbian Exposition American portrait painters English portrait painters 1857 births 1919 deaths People educated at Eton College 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists British emigrants to the United States