Ernest Parton
1845-1933 Ernest seems to have achieved some recognition fairly quickly in his career. He rented a London studio on Newman Street and exhibited two paintings at the Royal Academy in 1875. In 1877, Ernest seems to have decided to study Barbizon painting directly. Dated drawings of Lake Como and Lucerne document a trip to the Continent in the summer of 1876. At some point, he met up with a group of American artists, among them Theodore Robinson, John Singer Sargent, Daniel Ridgeway Knight, and Henry Bacon.
