Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon

1830 Born in Salem, Massachusetts

c. 1850 Began training in Salem with portrait painter Edward Augustus Holyoke Jr.

1853 First painted White Mountain scenery

1855 Studied with Benjamin Champney

1858 Exhibited Echo Lake, Franconia in an exhibition organized by Albert Bierstadt at New Bedford, Massachusetts; first exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum

1862–92 Maintained a studio at the Tremont Street Studio Building, Boston; taught life classes at the Boston Art Club and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School

1864 First exhibited at the National Academy of Design

1874 First exhibited at the Boston Art Club

1890 Stayed at Wentworth Hall in Jackson, New Hampshire

1906 Died in Dorchester, Massachusetts

 

 

 

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