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American, Realiism, Art Nouveau Painter and illustrator. His stylistic development falls into several distinct stages. His early landscapes and genre scenes of the 1870s bear the stamp of Realism. Many of his later portraits, notably of women, were psychological studies rather than specific likenesses. His brushwork became less painterly and more concerned with suggesting abstracted shapes. Throughout his career Alexander favoured compositions with a single figure placed against a sharply contrasting background.
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