Up for auction "Portrait Painter" Frederic Vinton Hand Written Letter Dated 1909.

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Frederic Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19,

1911), 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 City. Frederic moved to Chicago

with his parents when he was ten. Then, five years later, his family moved to Boston.

After first working as a clerk, he for short time was a banker, and then worked

as a bookkeeper While a bookkeeper, he began studying art under William

Rimmer of the Lowel Institute. Upon

prompting from Rimmer, Vinton sent a review of some local artwork to the Boston

Advertiser. In 1878 he began his artistic career by starting a small

portrait studio in Boston. Vinton married Annie M. Pierce on June 27, 1883,

after an eighteen-month trip across Europe, visiting the Netherlands, France,

and Germany. Some of his most famous paintings of portraits of his young wife.