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Charles H. Cecil Studios

It is run by American painter and art historian Charles H. Cecil, who was trained by R. H. Ives Gammell.

Gammell

R. H. Ives Gammell (born 1893), American muralist, portrait painter, art teacher, and writer on art

R. H. Ives Gammell

During the war years, he began work on his book, Twilight of Painting, and also started making plans for what would become his magnum opus, a series of paintings based on Francis Thompson's poem "The Hound of Heaven."

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It was there that he made contact with painters who had been trained in Europe, particularly with William Paxton, who had himself been a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme's at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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