Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Munn, George F.

MUNN, George F., artist, b. in Utica, N. Y.. in 1852. He first studied art under Charles Calverly, the sculptor, and subsequently at the schools of the National academy of design at New York. Later he entered the art-schools at South Kensington, England, where he received a gold medal, the first that was awarded to an American, for a clay model of the Farnese Hercules. He received a silver medal for life drawing in the schools of the Royal academy, and was afterward in the studio of George F. Watts in 1876. He has painted and sketched in Brittany, and has exhibited at the Dudley gallery, London, at Birmingham, and elsewhere. Among his works are “Wild Flowers,” “Roses,” “Meadow-Sweet,” and “A Sunny Day, Brittany.”