James Alexander Simpson

Born 1805 in Georgetown, D.C. During the years 1830–65, served as a part-time teacher of drawing and painting at Georgetown College. Married Julia Franzoni, daughter of the sculptor Carlo Franzoni (or of Giuseppe Franzoni); later married Sarah T. Gibson, widow of the artist Richard R. Gibson. Exhibited at the Washington Metropolitan Mechanics Institute, 1853. Moved to Baltimore, 1865. Died May 1, 1880, in Baltimore, Md.Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. GlassieThe Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)