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| Robert Spear Dunning
American 1829 -1905
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| Born: |
Brunswick Maine
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| Died: |
Westport Harbor Massachusetts
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| Active: |
Fall River Massachusetts 1834, 1852
New York New York
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| Addresses: |
New York New York
Fall River Massachusetts late 1850s
Westport Harbor Massachusetts
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| Studied: |
National Academy of Design
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| Instructors: |
James Roberts Thomaston, ME
Daniel P. Huntington
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| Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1850-1851, 1880
American Art Union 1850
Boston Art Club 1880
Providence Art Club
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| Examples of Work: |
Public Library and Historical Society, Fall River, Massachusetts
Town Hall, Swansea, Massachusetts
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| Specialty: |
Instructor
Painter
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| Style/School: |
Luminism
Trompe l'Oeil
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| Subjects Known For: |
Still Life
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| Teaching Positions: |
Fall River School
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| Artist Profile |
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Fall River, Massachusetts |
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
Robert S. Dunning (1829-1905) was born in Brunswick, Maine, but is associated with the mill city of Fall River, Massachusetts, where he spent nearly all his career. As a boy he worked in the textile mills that made Fall River a p...
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Robert Dunning was born in 1829. He studied with two artists in Maine before attending the National Academy of Design, where he focused on figure and portraiture painting. Dunning was employed at a mill and in costal shipping to support his studies. In 1859 he formed an artist's firm "Grouard & Dun...
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