Alfred Cornelius Howland (12 February 1838 – 17 March 1909) was an American painter. Fourth of July Parade by Alfred Cornelius Howland, c

He was born February 12, 1838, in Walpole, New Hampshire. As a youth, he worked as an engraver in Boston and a lithographer in

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. Starting in 1859, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany under Andreas Müller until 1861 and under

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until 1862. He spent the next few years in Paris and worked with French Barbizon School painters Jean-François Millet and

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. He returned to America in 1865 and worked in New York and Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is best known for genre paintings, landscapes and portraits. He died March 17, 1909, in

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. Howland was a member of the National Academy of Design and was member of the Academy council from 1880 to 1884. His works can be found in many US museums, including the

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, Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Milwaukee Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.

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