Known for landscape artist Name Edwin Whitefield | Role Artist | |
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Born September 22, 1816 ( 1816-09-22 ) East Lulworth, near Wareham, Dorset, England Died December 26, 1892, Dedham, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Edwin Whitefield (September 22, 1816 – December 26, 1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England.
Born in East Lulworth, near Wareham, Dorset, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1838.
Whitefield Township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota is named for the artist while nearby Lake Lillian was named for Whitefield's wife.
He died in Dedham, Massachusetts.
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