Biografie von William Parsons Winchester DANA (1833-1927)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Death place: London, England

Addresses: active in Boston by 1852; NYC, 1862-69

Profession: Marine, portrait, and genre painter

Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Picot, Le Poittevin.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1857, 1861, 1872, 1877-79, 1881, 1882, 1884-87; 1892; NAD,1862-89; Boston Athenaeum ,1857-71; PAFA 1864-92; Paris Expo, 1878 (medal), 1889 (medal).

Member: ANA, 1862; NA (elected 1863)

Comments: Sometime after his election to the NAD, he became an expatriate painter. G&W says he lived in Paris from 1879-89, but Brewington says he was there from 1865-89. Also known as William P.W. Dannat.

Sources: G&W; WW25; Thieme-Becker; Art Annual (1928), 384; Boston BD 1852; NYBD 1859; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Swan, BA; Rutledge, PA, vol. 1; Falk, PA, vol. 2; Graves, Dictionary; Fielding; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 334-35; Brewington, 103