Alfred Cornelius Howland

Alfred Cornelius Howland was an American painter.

He was born February 12, 1838 in Walpole, New Hampshire. As youth, he worked as an engraver in Boston and a lithographer in New York. From 1859 to 1861 he studied at the Dusseldorf Academy in Germany. Next few years he spent in Paris and worked with French Barbizon School painters, JeanFranois Millet and Thodore Rousseau. He returned to America in 1865 and worked in New York and Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is best known for genre paintings, landscapes and portraits. He died March 17, 1909 in Pasadena, California.

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