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Jean Paul Selinger (1850 - 1909) American - Jean Paul Selinger (1850 - 1909)American , Oil / Canvas , Signed, measures 14” x 11” inches Jean Paul Selinger was born in 1850 in Boston. He studied art at the Lowell Institute*, Boston and next trained abroad at the Art Academy in Stuttgart, and then under Wilhelm Lieble at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich*. Selinger was a colleague of William Merritt Chase and became a skilled portraitist, genre painter, and landscape artist. In the 1880s, Selinger opened an art studio in Providence and married Rhode Island-educated floral artist Emily Harris McGary (a distinguished silver medalist in Providence and Boston Art club competitions). Together, the Selingers became prominent fixtures both in Rhode Island and New England art circles. Between 1886 and 1909, Jean Paul maintained summer studios at grand resorts in New Hampshire, where he achieved further regional and national recognition as a leading artist of the “White Mountain School.”* Condition: Good Condition