Richard B. Farley

Farley was born October 24, 1875, in Poultney, Vermont, and died in 1954 in rural Eddington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied at the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he was taught by notable artists Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase. In 1898–1899, he traveled to Paris to study under James McNeill Whistler. Richard B. Farley was a versatile American artist whose training under leading figures and his varied output — from portraiture to seascapes and Native American subjects — have left a legacy in both fine art and cultural heritage collections.