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John White Alexander

1856–1915

Francis Luis Mora. Portrait of Alexander, 1911.
Francis Luis Mora. Portrait of Alexander, 1911.

Alexander joined Harper's Weekly as an office boy at eighteen and became an illustrator in 1875. He later studied in Munich and worked with Frank Duveneck in Italy. Teaching at Princeton preceded mural commissions for the Library of Congress and Carnegie Institute.

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Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940 · National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution · National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution · CC0 1.0 Portrait source · Licence