Portraits of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon
Datenot dated
Attributed to
David Edward Cronin
(American painter, illustrator and journalist, 1839–1925)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensionssheet: 7 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (19.7 × 14 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. William I. Homer, 1978; Transfer from Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives, 2014
Object number2014-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextDavid Edward Cronin was an illustrator, portrait painter, and political cartoonist, as well as a journalist and author. He sometimes used the pseudonym Seth Eyland.Cronin studied art in Troy NY with the painter Alban Conant, known primarily as a portraitist, and in London and France. He returned to art after a hiatus as a Civil War journalist, turning to illustration in 1879. He illustrated poems of American and British poets, the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, and Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. By 1892, he was a political cartoonist in Philadelphia. From the mid-1890s until 1910, Cronin both wrote and illustrated a variety of literary and historical publications.
