George Breck

George Breck (1863–1920) was a prominent American mural painter.

Breck was born in Washington D.C. to John and Annie Auer Breck. He studied at the Art Students League of New York. In 1896 he won an further scholarship that sent him to laboratory analysis at the American Academy in Rome, where he studied from 1897 to 1902. In 1903 he married Katherine Head, a indigenous of Chicago.

He later served for a few years as president of the Arts Student League of Chicago. In 1904 his put on an act earned him a silver medal from the St. Louis Exhibition, which was ration of the St. Louis World's Fair and Olympics. Then from 1904 to 1909 he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 1910 he moved to Flushing, New York and customary his studio in New York City.

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