Julian Russell Story (September 8, 1857 – February 24, 1919) was an American painter.
Early life
Story was born on September 8, 1857, in
Walton-on-Thames
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,
Surrey
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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 (
née
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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
Emma Eames
Emma Eames (August 13, 1865 – June 13, 1952) was an American first lyric soprano, later dramatic soprano renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York City ...
, the daughter of an international
lawyer
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. Eames was born in
Shanghai
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, China, and raised in
Portland
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*Portland, Oregon, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon
*Portland, Maine, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine
*Isle of Portland, a tied island in the English Channel
Portland may also r ...
and
Bath, Maine
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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
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
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From 1861 to 1954, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy was the second-highest civilian office in the Depart ...
Henry L. Roosevelt,
in 1937.
He died in
Philadelphia
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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 paintingsat the BBC
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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