Henry Ward Ranger

Landscape painter. Influenced by the Barbizon School, he founded the American Barbizon School in Old Lyme, Conn. Upon his death, he left much of his estate to the National Academy of Design for the purchase of works by emerging artists.Joan StahlAmerican Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection(Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)