| Intro | American landscape painter and art collector |
| Was |
Painter Illustrator Art collector |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Arts Creativity |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 13 March 1844 |
| Death |
26 September 1913 (aged 69 years) |
| Star sign | Pisces |
Edward Taylor Snow (March 13, 1844 – September 27, 1913) was a notable American landscape painter and art collector based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
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.
Career
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.
Family life
He married Belle Osborne (1845-1914) and had several children, including Edward Osborne Snow and Emma Elliot Harmstadt. He is buried in the West Laurel Hill Cemetery.