Albert Edward Sterner (March 8, 1863 – December 16, 1946) was a British-American illustrator and painter.

Early life

Sterner was born to a

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family in London, and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. After a brief period in Germany, he studied drawing in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme and

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. He eventually moved to the United States in 1879 to join his family who had previously moved to

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. His brother was the architect

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, who had a career in Chicago and Denver before joining his brother in New York.

Career

He began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began contributing illustrations to magazines including ''

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'', '' Scribner's Magazine'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In 1888 he became a student at

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in Paris. He has illustrated G. W. Curtis' ''Prue and I'' (which established his reputation as a black-and-white artist), Coppée's ''Tales'' (1891), ''Works of Edgar Allan Poe'' (1894), and Mary Augusta Ward's' ''

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'' (1900) and '' The Marriage of William Ashe'' (1905). His oil-painting "The Bachelor" received the bronze medal at the

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. In 1918, he returned to America and began teaching at the Art Students League in New York. Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the

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. Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941. His ''New York Times'' obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations."

Notable students

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* Jacob Burck * E. Charlton Fulton

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Early life

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