Edward Taylor Snow (1844 - 1913) Oil on panel, signed lower right, measures 12 x 10 and 16 x 14 inches w/frame. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of Edward Knight Snow and Mary Anne Snow. He studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in the 1860s under Christian Schussele. He also studied in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin. He was the Art Commissioner at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and a juror at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition.He was a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, and his documents are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Archives of American Art, and the National Portrait Gallery Library among other places.He was a contemporary of Thomas Eakins, and the Eakins' 1904 portrait of Snow is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.He married Belle Osborne (1845-1914) and had several children, including Edward Osborne Snow and Emma Elliot Harmstadt. He died at his home in Philadelphia on September 26, 1913, and is buried in the West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

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