Biografie von Franklin Dullin BRISCOE (1844-1903)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Death place: Phila., PA

Addresses: Phila., PA (1848-on)

Profession: Marine, history, and portrait painter

Studied: Edward Moran, 1860; travel to Europe.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1863, 1885; Brooklyn AA, 1873; Philadelphia Centennial, 1876

Comments: A well-known and successful marine painter of the last quarter of the 19th century, Briscoe made many extended ocean voyages where he found his subject ó the ocean and its ships in all types of weather. In 1885, he also painted a major historical mural, "The Battle of Gettysburg," which was 13 feet tall by 230 feet long, in ten panels (location unknown).

Sources: Brewington, 58; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 401