Richard Gordon Greenough (1848-1880)
Portrait Painter, of Paris, France; died unmarried
He graduated from Harvard and for the next two years studied drawing and anatomy under the direction of his father at Newport, R.I. He proceeded to Brussels Academy before entering the Ateliers of Lefevre and Boulanger in Paris where he gave every promise of becoming a great painter. His portraits were admitted to the salon in Paris and to the exhibitions at Brussels. One of those exhibited at the Paris Exposition was published in L'Art as one of the best examples of American art. He died in Paris at the age of 32, unmarried.
