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Last Name Faxon

Given Name Charles Edward

alt. Names C. E. F. ; C. E. Faxon ;

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Year born 1846 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Year died 1918

Place of death Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Father's occupation shoe leather trade Elisha Faxon (1801-1855)

Relatives Hannah Whiting (1805-1870) (mother) ; Edwin (brother) ; Charles (brother) ; Marcus Faxon (brother)

Education engineering at Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge; self-taught in art

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927): Silva of N America (1890-9) & Manual Trees (1905) ; John M. Coulter & J. N. Rose: Notes on North American Umbelliferae (1893) ; D. C. Eaton: Ferns of North America ; John Donnell Smiths: Guatemalan plants in Botanical Gazette (1888-94) ;

Patronage 1879-84 botany instructor Bussey Institution Harvard College; Garden and Forest 1888-98; 1882-1918 staff of Arnold Arboretum

Collaborators Alfred Riocreux ; Mary W. Gill ; engaver Philibert Picart ; Eugene Picart ; lithographer B. Meisel ;

Techniques botanical and natural drawing, watercolour, and painting ;

Sample(s) http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/post/14542637084/pseudotsuga-macrocarpa-the-bigcone-douglas-fir ;

Archival sources papers in Harvard Univ. Library & Arnold Arboretum, Cambridge: arboretum.harvard.edu/wp.../II_D_CEF_2012.pdf ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Bridson 2003: 75 & 159 ;

other See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=3075&-max=25 .

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