Henry siddons mowbray biography of michaels

American painter (–)

Henry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, – ) was an American artist.

Siddons Mowbray was born and flourished as an artist.

This series contains two photo albums compiled by the Mowbray family, portraits and snapshots of Harry Siddons Mowbray, photos of homes and a studio.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt on August 5, , Henry Siddons Mowbray was raised by an aunt and uncle in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Mowbray painted nineteen oil-on-canvas murals for the newly built Manhattan home of the railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington and his new wife.

Orientalist painters were intrigued by the secret world of women at the hammam, which was inaccessible to their Western male eyes.

He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from to ^[2]

Early life

Mowbray was born of English parents at Alexandria, Egypt.

His father, John Henry Siddons, represented a British bank in Alexandria; he died of hyperthermia a year after his son was born. Mowbray's mother moved to America with her son. When Mowbray was five, his mother died, burnt alive in a domestic accident caused by lamp fuel.

The Calenders was inspired by Edward Lane's nineteenth-century translation of a collection of traditional Arabic stories, dating back to the medieval period.

Left an orphan, the boy was adopted by his aunt, his mother's sister, and her husband, George Mowbray. The family settled at North Adams, Massachusetts.^[3] After a year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, he went to Paris and entered the atelier of Leon Bonnat in , his first picture, Aladdin, bringing him to public notice.

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