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Lawson, Ernest. 



Born in California, 1873. Spent several years in France. Silver medal, 

 St. Louis Exp. 1904; Sesnan medal, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 1907. A. N. A. 

 Studio, New York. 



AN ABANDONED FARM. 

 Signed. On canvas, 29 H., 36 W. 



LOEB, lyOUIS. 



Born, Cleveland, Ohio, November 7, 1866. Pupil of G^rome in Paris. 

 Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1895; third class medal, Paris Salon, 1897; 

 silver medals for drawing and painting, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901 ; 

 second Hallgarten prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1902; Webb prize, Soc. Amer. 

 Artists, 1903; silver medals for painting and illustration, St. Louis Exp. 

 1904; Carnegie prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1905; first Corcoran prize, Soc. 

 Washington Artists, 1906, for The Siren, now in the National Gallery. 

 N. A. 1906; member N. Y. Arch. League. Specialty, landscapes and fig- 

 ures in oil. and illustrations. Also teacher. Studio, New York. 



THE SIREN. 

 Signed and dated, 1904. On canvas, 34 H., 28 W. 



Low, Will H. 



Born, Albany, N. Y., May 31, 1853. Pupil of Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 

 under G^rome, and of Carolus-Duran in Paris. Silver medal, Paris Exp. 

 1889; medal, Columbian Exp., Chicago, 1893; Lotos Club Fund, Nat. 

 Acad. Design, 1895; silver medal, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901; 

 member. International Jury of Awards, St. Louis Exp. 1904. N. A. 1890; 

 member Mural Painters; N. Y. Arch. League. Painter, illustrator and 

 writer. Studio, New York. 



CHRISTMAS MORN. 

 Signed and dated, 1908. On canvas, 50 H., 26 W. 



Marshall, William Edgar. 



Born, New York, June 30, 1837; died, August 29, 1906. Portrait 

 painter and engraver. Employed by the American Bank Note Company 

 in 1858. Subsequently painted portraits in oil and engraved large por- 

 traits in line. Settled in Boston, but in 1864-66 travelled in Europe, 

 residing chiefly in Paris, where he exhibited in the Salons of 1865 and 

 1866. Established a studio in New York in 1866. Among his more note- 

 worthy achievements have been engravings after Stuart's Washington and 

 Da Vinci's portrait of Christ, his heroic ideal painting of Christ, which he 

 also engraved, and engravings of many distinguished persons, including 



