aliwebb37Mar 3011 min readChapter 5 Studying in France 1867Paris was the art capital of the of the 19thcentury world. As Henry James said in 1887: “It sounds like a paradox, but it is a very...
aliwebb37Mar 305 min readChapter 4 Civil War BustsHaving finished his tenure at PAFA, Poole moved back to Maryland and sought out opportunities to demonstrate his growing artistic...
aliwebb37Mar 302 min readPrefaceFor years, growing up, I stared across my grandmother’s dining room table at the portrait of a little girl, dressed all in white, in a...
aliwebb37Mar 204 min readChapter 3 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1863After completing his schooling in Montgomery County, Poole set out for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. He...
aliwebb37Mar 84 min readChapter 2 Early Years 1841-1863Eugene Alonzo Cost Poole was born to John and Anna Rebecca Cost on February 16, 1841 in what would become Poolesville, Maryland. Rebecca...