Henry Bayley Snell

Place: Richmond

Born: 1858

Death: 1943

Biography:

Henry Bayley Snell was an American Impressionist painter and educator. He was born in Richmond, England, on September 29, 1858, and emigrated to the United States in 1875 at the age of seventeen. Snell studied at the Art Students’ League in New York and supported himself in the 1880s by producing marine scenes at the Photoengraving Company. He married Florence Francis in 1888 and began teaching at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1899, where he remained until 1943. Snell was an influential teacher, instructing several of the founding members of the Philadelphia Ten, including Theresa Bernstein. In 1921, he co-founded, with Frank Leonard Allen, the 'Boothbay Studios' in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, which operated as a summer school. Snell exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Art Club of Philadelphia, and the Salmagundi Club in New York. He was awarded both gold and silver medals at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Snell died in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1943.