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WILES, Lemuel Maynard, artist, born in Perry, Genesee co. (now Wyoming), New York, 21 October, 1826. In 1848-'51 he studied with William Hart in Albany, and Jasper F. Cropsey in New York. He followed his profession in Washington, D. C., Buffalo, Utica, and Albany, New York, and in 1864 opened a studio in Yew York. In 1875 he assumed the directorship of the College of fine arts in Ingham university, Le Roy, New York, and in 1888 he founded the Silver Lake art-school at Perry, New York His works include "The Pillar of Fire," " Mount San Jacinto, California," " Ruins of the Cathedral of San Juan Capistrano, California," " The Noonday Retreat," "The Vale of Elms," "Snowbound," and "A Song of the Sea."--His son, Irving Ramsay, artist, born in Utica, New York, S April, 1861, studied painting at first under his father and afterward at the Art students' league, New York, and in 1882-'4 under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Carolus Duran in Paris. He is known as a clever figure-painter, and his "Corner Table" gained the third Hallgarten prize at the Academy of design in 1886. He is a member of the Society of American artists, and the Water-color society.
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