William Henry Lippincott

In 1875, Lippincott departed Philadelphia for France. After acquiring a solid technique from the Salon painter Léon Bonnat in Paris, he joined a colony of American painters in Pont-Aven in Brittany, where he observed the Breton people, considered picturesque by their own compatriots as well as by Americans.Elizabeth PrelingerThe Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum(New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000)