The New Student's Reference Work/Low, Will Hicok

Low, Will Hicok, American artist, was born at Albany, N. Y., May 31, 1853, and early took up painting and decorative designing as a profession. He has done much in decorating panels, ceilings and the like with ideal groups and paintings, and has also turned out much fine stained-glass work. As a beginner in figure-painting, he was a pupil of Gérôme and of Carolus Duran at Paris. He is an academician of the National Academy of Design, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists and the holder of many medals, diplomas and awards for his drawings and decorative work.