Edward Taylor Snow

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Portrait of Edward Taylor Snow

Edward Taylor Snow (1844 – September 27, 1913) was a notable American painter and art collector based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

He studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in the 1860s. He also studied in France, Holland and Germany.[2]

He was the Art Commissioner at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and a juror at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition.[3]

He was a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, and his documents are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Archives of American Art, and the National Portrait Gallery Library among other places.[4]

He was a contemporary of Thomas Eakins, and the Eakins' 1904 portrait of Snow is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Edward Snow". askArt.
  2. ^ "Edward Taylor Snow". Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "Edward Taylor Snow". Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "Snow, E. T. (Edward Taylor), 1844-1913". The Frick Collection.
  5. ^ "Portrait of Edward Taylor Snow". Philadelphia Museum of Art.