BIO:

WATERMAN, Marcus. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1 September, 1834. He graduated from Brown in 1855, and during 1857-'70 worked in New York, where he was elected an associate of the National academy in 1861. In 1874 he opened a studio in Boston, where an exhibition of his works was held in 1878, previous to his departure for Europe. He visited Algeria in 1879 and 1883, and Spain in 1882, and went abroad again in 1884. His landscapes include "Gulliver in Lilliput," which was at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, in 1876 ; "The Roc's Egg " (1886) ; "The Journey to the City of Brass" (1888); and numerous American forest scenes and Arabian subjects.