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George Quincy Thorndike

THORNDIKE, George Quincy, artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, about 1825; died there in December, 1886. He was graduated at Harvard in 1847, and then went abroad, studying for some time in Paris. After his return to the United States he settled in Newport, Rhode Island He was made an associate of the National academy in 1861. His landscapes showed many of the characteristics of the French school, and James J. Jarves wrote of him" " Thorndike is so thoroughly French in style and motive that his pictures require naturalization before being popularly welcomed at home." His better-known works include " The Wayside Inn," " Swans in Central Park," " The Lily Pond," " The Dumplings, Newport," and "View near Stockbridge, Massachusetts"

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