The Belknap Mill Society
Sunday, August 15, 1999 through Thursday, September 30, 1999
Alfred T. Ordway (1821 – 1897)
Alfred T. Ordway studied portraiture under G. P. A. Healy and, in 1845, opened a studio in Tremont Row, Boston. Ordway and his friend, Benjamin Champney, founded the Boston Art Club in 1854. He served as its President in 1859. He was also a founder of the Boston Paint and Clay Club. He served as a Director of Exhibitions at the Boston Athenaeum from 1856 to 1863. Ordway exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum (1855-64), the Art Institute of Chicago (1898), and the Mechanics Fair in Boston in 1878.
In September, 1854 Ordway was at Conway with Miss Bangs, Champney, Hubbard, and Sanford Gifford trying his hand at landscape painting. Ordway painted throughout the northeast, and in 1890 he was reported to be spending "the season" at the Kearsarge House in North Conway.
He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association from 1868 until his death. His last known address was Boston.
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