Schwarz Gallery - Stephen James Ferris


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Name:	Stephen James Ferris
Dates:	(1835 - 1915)
Nationality:	American
Biography:	The portraitist Stephen James Ferris was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Christian Schuselle and with Samuel Bell Waugh in Bordentown, New Jersey. He won the Fortuny Prize for portraiture in Rome in 1876. Ferris produced over two thousand portraits, many of which were published in John Clark Ridpath's history books. Ferris was a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, the Artists' Fund Society, and the Municipal League, Philadelphia. He taught at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and was the father of the noted Philadelphia history painter Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris. copyright © 2013 Schwarz Gallery
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