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Artist.

William Page’s association with Pfaff’s is uncertain. He is described as a friend of Ada Clare, which suggests that he was a member of the 42nd Street Coterie that met regularly at her home (Rawson 103). As a portrait painter in New York City, Page was acquainted with a varied group of people from John Quincy Adams and Charles Sumner to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne (Downes, “William Page”). His better known portraits include: Ruth and Naomi, A Holy Family, Ceres, The Young Merchants, and Farragut’s Triumphal Entry into Mobile Bay.

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References & Biographical Resources

Downes, William Howe. "William Page." Dictionary of American Biography. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC. [more about this work]

Rawson, A. L. "A Bygone Bohemia." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 1896. 96-107. [more about this work]

A member of Clare's coterie of Bohemians. He is identified as "the artist" (103). [pages: 103]

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IV, Lodge-Pickens. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. [more about this work]

[pages: 626(ill.)]