Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was American, but moved to Europe at age 27 and, with the exception of one brief return trip to the US, lived as an expatriate for 51 years.
• The artist attended the Académie Julian in Paris for only three months because Gustave Boulanger (French, 1824-1888), a professor there, advised that nothing remained to be taught or learned in the artist's training.
• The artist was born a twin. While the twin married and had children, the artist (a devout Roman Catholic) remained single and celibate, and lived with another sibling who did the same.
  
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• The artist had an in-law who was (1) a leader and teacher in the Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture Movement, and (2) originally immigrated to the US from England not to create furniture, but to promote a phonographic writing system developed by his brother. Can you identify the furniture designer and his brother?

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

Lin sent the short and sweet email, "Seurat" for the win last week. Yes, it was our guy Georges' 1881 drawing The Harvester ... although it did resemble both van Gogh and Millet (so don't feel chagrined if you sent either of those gents' names; many readers did). Congratulations, Lin!