Long considered the first American impressionist, Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) was born in Irasburg, Vermont, but spent most of his childhood in the rural Midwest, predominantly Wisconsin.
Robinson’s formal art education began at the Art Institute of Chicago (1869-1870) and continued at the National Academy of Design in New York (1874-1876), where he was one of the founders of the Art Students League.
In 1876 he journeyed to Paris and entered the atelier of the academician Carolus-Duran but later moved to the École des Beaux-Arts to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme.
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