Frederick James

Visual Artist

1845 – 1907

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Who was Frederick James?

Frederick E. James was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions of 18th-century American life.

James trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Portraits by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard, and the Marquis de Lafayette hang in the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia.

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Born
1845
Philadelphia
Nationality
  • United States of America
Lived in
  • Philadelphia
Died
Jul 17, 1907
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on July 23, 2013

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