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Gift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, 2011.344.145  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical  ...
August Franzen
Gift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, 2011.344.145 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

August Franzen

American, 1863 - 1938
BiographyThe Swedish-born portrait painter August Franzen lived in Portland, OR, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Chicago before returning to Sweden to study art. He returned to New York City in 1890 and pursued a successful career as a portrait painter. His subjects included President William Howard Taft.
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