Draft:Alfred Brennan
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Comment: fails WP:NARTIST Theroadislong (talk) 15:20, 26 July 2021 (UTC)- Comment: Example "was an example in the example.[1][2][3][4][5]". WP:TOOMANYREFS? TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 14:47, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Alfred Laurens Brennan should redirect here
Alfred Laurens Brennan (February 14, 1853 – June 14, 1921) was an artist and illustrator in the United States.[1][2][3] The Delaware Art Museum has two of his works in their collection.[4]
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky and moved with his family to Cincinnati after the American Civil War. John Fletcher and Evangeline Brennan were his parents. Fletcher was a writer and publisher from Canada who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Brennan's mother was a Quaker from Pennsylvania.
Brennan studied at private schools and Saint Dustan's College on Prince Edward Island and with tutors. He went to the University of Cincinnati's School of Design.[5]
He did pen and ink drawings for newspapers and magazines. He also illustrated children's books.[6]
He married Lucy Lee and they had five children.[citation needed]
He died in Brooklyn, New York.[7]
Work
[edit]- The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrator[8]
- My Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett Stokes (1912), illustrator
References
[edit]- ^ "alfred brennan 18 Jun 1921 Brooklyn Life obit". Brooklyn Life. June 18, 1921. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org.
- ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
- ^ "Works – Alfred Laurens Brennan – Artists – Delaware Art Museum". emuseum.delart.org.
- ^ "Alfred Laurens Brennan - Divination in Tea Leaves". www.artoftheprint.com.
- ^ "Alfred Laurens Brennan". emuseum.delart.org.
- ^ "University Art Gallery : Individual : Alfred Laurens Brennan (1853-1921) [Brennan, Alfred Laurens]". uag.pitt.edu.
- ^ Hill, Richard J. (November 3, 2016). Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text: A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel. Routledge. ISBN 9781317062165 – via Google Books.
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