William Paxton Born in Baltimore and painter of genre, portraits, and murals, William Paxton was a prominent late 19th, early 20th century artist who is best known for his paintings of leisure class persons and their servants. He was also a lithographer and etcher. In 1905, at the St. Botolph Club, he showed paintings to represent the world as seen with binocular instead of monocular vision. To achieve blurred images--the effect of Impressionism---he experimented with painting duplicate edges. He studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean Leon Gerome and returned to New York and studied with Dennis Bunker, a protege of Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston. This association drew Paxton to Boston where he executed quiet, elegant, Vermeer-like interiors of well-to-do persons. In Philadelphia, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia."

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