William Henry Lippincott (1849 - 1920). William Henry Lippincott was an American portrait and landscape painter. Lippincott was born in Philadelphia and went to a Quaker school, after which he began his art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He became an illustrator and later a stage artist at the Arch Street Theater. In 1874 he went to Paris as a student of Léon Bonnat at the Societe de Artistes Francais for eight years, where he also exhibited at the Paris Salon. He lived in an apartment with the artists Edwin Blashfield, Charles S. Pearce and Milne Ramsey, also from the United States. In 1882 he returned to the United States and built a studio on Broadway in New York City. There he was in 1883 Professor of Painting at the National Academy of Design and exhibited regularly at exhibitions of American art. In 1885 he was elected an associate member of the National Academy and in 1897 a full member, in addition he was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Society od American etcher and the Century Association. Lippincott mainly painted portraits, often children portraits, and family scenes from the working class. His best known works included The Duck's Breakfast, Love's Ambush and Pleasant Reflections.