| LC control no. | nr 93019948 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Canada |
| Birth date | 1828-11-02 |
| Death date | 1901-01-09 |
| Place of birth | St. Andrews (N.B.) |
| Place of death | Providence (R.I.) |
| Affiliation | Colored Citizens of Boston Lowell Institute Rhode Island School of Design Providence Art Club |
| Profession or occupation | Daguerreotypists Painters |
| Found in | Cederholm, T.D. Afro-American artists, 1973: page 15 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; painter; b. St. Andrews (New Brunswick) 1828, d. Providence (R.I.) 1901) Driskell, D. Two cent. of black American art, 1976: page 126 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; b. 1828, d. 1901) Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1828-1901, 1992: page 67 (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; b. ca. 1826-27) page 74 (d. 1/9/1901) Who was who in Amer. art, 1985: page 32 (Bannister, Edward M.; landscape painter; b. 1833, d. 1901) RLIN data base, 06/01/93 (hdg.: Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901; usage: Edward Mitchell Bannister) African American National Biography, accessed December 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bannister, Edward Mitchell; painter; born c.1826 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada; established himself as a full-time artist (1857); was active in Boston's African American arts community and in the abolitionist movement; served as an officer of the Union Progressive Society and the Colored Citizens of Boston; was a delegate to the New England Colored Citizens Convention (1859 and 1865); traveled to New York to study photography in order to enter into the daguerreotype business (1862); advertised his services as a daguerreotypist (1863 and 1864); took life-drawing classes at the Lowell Institute (1863-1865); came to national attention when his painting Under the Oaks was awarded a first-prize medal at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876); served on the first board of the new Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and was a founding member of the Providence Art Club (1880); memorial exhibition of his work, including 101 paintings, was mounted at the Providence Art Club (1901); died 09 January 1901 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States) |
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