biography of Granville PERKINS (1830-1895)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Landscape painter, scenery painter, book illustrator

Studied: Philadelphia, with James Hamilton.

Exhibited: AIC; NAD, 1862-89; PAFA, 1856; Brooklyn AA, 1863-85; Boston AC, 1881-82.

Member: AWCS.

Work: Mystic Seaport Mus.; Peabody Mus., Salem, Mass.

Comments: Active in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, and NYC. Illustrator: Harper's Leslie's; "Beyond the Mississippi," 1867.

Sources: G&W; CAB; Rutledge, PA; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 431-32. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 126