Oil on masonite 23 x ¾ x 19 ¾ in, manner of William Lester Stevens was born and raised in Rockport (1888-1969), Massachusetts, where he began studying painting as a youth with the artist Parker Perkins. By the age of eighteen, he had exhibited his first piece at the National Academy of Design and entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Tarbell.

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