Frederic Porter Vinton

Frederic Porter Vinton , sometimes spelled Frederick, was an American portrait painter.

He was born in Bangor, Maine. He grew up in Chicago, and moved to Boston in 1861 For twenty years he worked as a bookkeeper, during which he studied art under William Rimmer at the Lowell Institute. Soon after studying at the Institute, he wrote an art review for the Boston Advertiser. He opened a portrait studio in Boston in 1878. After his studio picked up business, he traveled abroad in Europe for eighteen months, then returned to marry Annie M. Pierce on June 27, 1883. His first exhibition was in 1880, which showed a portrait of his. He contributed his art to the exhibit every year until 1883, in which political unrest in the Academy in which the exhibit belonged forced him to resign for a year. In 1884 he submitted Street in Toledo, the first of his landscapes to be submitted. Everything before it was a portrait of some kind. In 1891 he was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design, New York.

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