biography of Edward Clarke CABOT (1818-1901)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Death place: Brookline, MA

Addresses: Brookline, MA/Nonquitt

Profession: Architect, watercolor painter

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris, with J.P. Laurens, 1890-92; architecture in Milan

Exhibited: Boston Athenaeum, 1856; Boston AC; Boston WC Soc.; AIC, 1892, 1894; NAD,1895-96; Nonquitt Casino, 1900; St. Botolph Club, Boston, Memorial Exhib., 1902

Member: Boston AC; Boston WC Soc.; AWCS (hon. mem.)

Work: Priv. colls.

Comments: Brother of James Elliot Cabot (see entry). He was a sheep farmer first and went on to design the Boston Athenaeum in 1845, the Boston Theatre in 1852 and the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He sketched scenes with Winslow Homer (see entry) during the Civil War and devoted himself to painting after his retirement from architecture in 1888.

Sources: G&W; Art Annual (1903); Swan, BA, 208; Thieme-Becker; Cowdrey, NAD. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 24; Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 57 (w/repro.)