Reid Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis Reid, US Impressionist painter born on 29 July 1862.Died on 02 December 1929
A founding member of the Ten American Painters and a native of Massachusetts, Robert Reid first studied in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where draftsmanship, portraiture, and anatomy were stressed. He later attended the Art Students League in New York City before traveling to France for training at the Academie Julian in the late 1880s. In 1890 Reid quite suddenly adopted an impressionist style with a brighter palette, leaving behind many aspects of his academic background. Like his fellow impressionists in the US and abroad, he was fond of painting attractive young women in outdoor settings.