Hugh Breckenridge (1870 – 1937)
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Hugh Breckenridge was born in Leesburg, Virginia where he attended Saturday art classes at a young age. He learned techniques that would
later play a larger role influencing him to break into the art world. His interest in art became so prominent that he dropped out of school
as a teenager and ultimately attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Breckenridge was later able to travel to Paris and studied with
artists Adolphe William Bouguerau, Louis Ferrier and Jacques Doucet. In Paris he absorbed the cultural and foreign atmosphere that inspired
his future work. He expanded his artistic work and became a portraitist and later took on positions to instruct painting as well as the Director of the Department of Fine Art at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. In 1920, he opened his own school called the Breckenridge School of Art in Gloucester, MA. Breckenridge continued to paint portraits and was later inspired by the Gloucester landscape and harbor for subjects of his future paintings. Breckenridge’s works are displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Museum, Boston Art Club, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, National Academy of Design, and more.
later play a larger role influencing him to break into the art world. His interest in art became so prominent that he dropped out of school
as a teenager and ultimately attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Breckenridge was later able to travel to Paris and studied with
artists Adolphe William Bouguerau, Louis Ferrier and Jacques Doucet. In Paris he absorbed the cultural and foreign atmosphere that inspired
his future work. He expanded his artistic work and became a portraitist and later took on positions to instruct painting as well as the Director of the Department of Fine Art at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. In 1920, he opened his own school called the Breckenridge School of Art in Gloucester, MA. Breckenridge continued to paint portraits and was later inspired by the Gloucester landscape and harbor for subjects of his future paintings. Breckenridge’s works are displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Museum, Boston Art Club, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, National Academy of Design, and more.