Francis William Edmonds, an early American genre painter, was born in Hudson, New York in 1806.Edmonds, thanks to an uncle who arranged a clerkship for him, began his professional life as a banker in New York City, and also took evening classes at the National Academy of Design. He first exhibited at the New York Academy in 1836, under an assumed name, Sammy the Tailor. In 1838 he was elected an associate of the National Academy, and in 1840 an academician. He died at his residence in Eastchester, New York on the Bronx River on February 7, 1863.
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