Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Maurice Prendergast 1858-1924
Maurice Brazil Prendergast [1858-1924] was born in Saint John's, Newfoundland, to a shopkeeper who moved the family to Boston in 1868. He left school after only eight or nine years and went to work for a commercial art firm. He never married and throughout his life was accompanied and supported by his brother Charles, a gifted craftsman and artist in his own right.
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