VINTON, Frederick Porter, painter, born in Bangor, Maine, 29 January, 1846. He went abroad in 1875. studied for some time under Leon Bonnat in Paris, and thence went, in 1877, to Munich, where he studied for a year in the academy under Ferdinand Wagner and Wilhelm Diez. Returning to Paris, he became a pupil in the school of Jean Paul Laurens. At the salon of 1878 he exhibited "Italian Girl," and in the Paris exposition of the same year he also had two paintings. In 1878 he returned to the United States and opened a studio in Boston. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1882. His works painted since he settled in Boston are mostly portraits, including those of Sir Lyon Playfair and Alexander H. Vinton (1880); Wendell Phillips (1881); William Warren (1882); Francis Parkman (1883); Andrew P. Peabody and General Charles Devens (1884); and George F. Choate and George F. Hoar (1885).