Frederick James (artist)

For Frederic James, American painter, see Frederic James. For the Australian dried fruit merchant, see Frederick Alexander James.

Frederick James
Born	1845 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	July 17, 1907 Percé, Quebec
Nationality	American
Known for	painter

Frederick E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé, Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions of 18th-century American life.

James trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Portraits by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard, and the Marquis de Lafayette hang in the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia.

External links

• Frederick James at Find a Grave

Works

• "A Colonial Wedding", 1883.

• "Canadian Kitchen"
• "Mischianza", 1881.
• "The Introduction"