Marine and landscape painter, George
McConnell was born in 1852 in Steubenville, Ohio. He died in Portland,
Maine in 1929. After he studied in New York City, Philadelphia
and Paris, McConnell returned to Maine and opened a studio in
1883 in Portland, where he became a successful and popular landscape
and marine artist. He was somewhat a recluse and was a member
of the Society of Independent Artists. He was a realist who painted
directly from nature.
