Essex

CARBEE, Scott Clifton

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 139

Scott Clifton CARBEE, portrait painter, Boston [Suffolk County], 
Massachusetts, was born 26 April 1860 in East Concord [Essex County, 
Vermont], son of James Balch and Mary (GRAY) CARBEE. Educated at Boston 
public schools; studied art in Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode 
Island; Paris, France; and Florence, Italy. His first instruction in drawing 
was with Prof. George H. BARTLETT, while attending public school in South 
Boston; after graduating was employed as lithographer; studied painting under 
Hugo BREUL, of Providence, Bouguereau, Ferrier and Delecluse in Paris, and 
later in Etaples, France, and in Florence under Max BOHM; has exhibited in 
Paris Salon and all principal American exhibitions. Among portraits painted 
are Chief Justice Horace GRAY; ex-U. S. Senator ROACH of Nevada; Ex-Governors 
PROUTY and ORMSBEE and Chief Justice John W. ROWELL of Vermont; Judge BAKER, 
of Hallowell [Kennebec County], Maine; Mrs. William K. RYAN and children of 
New York; and the late Colonel Albert CLARKE of Boston. Member of Vermont 
Association of Boston; Boston Art Club; Society of Odd Brushes; and Copley 
Society of Boston. Residence at 110 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts; 
studio [same address]. In 1882 he [Scott Clifton CARBEE] married [Miss?] 
Mary Packard JONES of Hingham [Plymouth County], Massachusetts; they had 
three children: Robert Clifton, who died in 1888; Jessie Mae; and James 
Gerome.

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