Francis “Frank” Marion Gregory (1848-1927) [RA 1877-1927]
American golden age illustrator & engraver ;
Francis “Frank” M[arion] Gregory [possibly] ; F.M. Gregory ; F. M. Gregory ; Francis Gregory ; Frank Gregory ; Frank M. Gregory ; Francis M. Gregory ;
[Born September 7 [on tombstone] or October 21, 1848 in Mansfield / Northampton Now, PA – died February 20, 1927 in Stroudsburg, PA in the home of his daughter]

SAL record control number: 66781 ;

Record level: Person ;

Record type: Artist ;

Biography:

Birth: September 7 [on tombstone] or October 21, 1848 in Mansfield, PA ;
Death: February 20, 1927 in Stroudsburg, PA in the home of his daughter ;
Sex: Male ;
Ethnicity: White ;
Zodiac: Virgo or Libra ;

Known for: Etchings of New York city ;
Medium: Pen & ink ; oil ; pencil on paper ; watercolor ;
Technique: Etching ; painting ; drawing ;
Subjects: New York City ; literary ; genre ;

Areas: Mansfield, PA (1848-1849) ; Elmira, NY (1849-1855) ; New York, NY (1855-1927) ;
Region: North East ;
Lived: 183 East 71st Street, New York, NY ; 80 East Washington Square, New York, NY (1884) ;
Father: Dr. Orsen Smith Gregory (1813-1882), a doctor or John Gregory (1815-1898) [it is unclear] ;
Mother: Catharine (Kresge) Gregory (1827-1903) ;
Relatives: Augusta D. (Seward) Gregory (?-1885), sister ; Clinton A Gregory (1839-1863), brother ; Mary Jane (Gregory) Shiffer (1845-1919), sister ; Diana C. Gregory (1854-1876), sister ;
Spouse: Hannah (Everitt) Gregory (1847-1912), married 1863 ; Ellen T. (Grove) Gregory (1847-?), married 1872 ;
Children: Catharine “Effie” L. (Gregory) Doleiden (1879-1965), daughter ; Julian Irving Gregory (1874- ), son, piano tuner ; Jessie A. (Gregory) Flint (1876-?), daughter, a nurse ;

Training: New York public schools, New York, NY ; National Academy of Design, New York, NY (1871) ; Palette Club, New York, NY (ca.1870s) ; Art Students’ League of New York, New York, NY under Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) (1886) ;
Instructors: Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) (1886) ;
Work: Frederick A Stokes, publisher (1887) ; Book illustration of the following : Shakespearean calendar (photogravure, 1888) ; Faust (1888) ; The rivals (1889) ; Lucile (1889) ; The blue bells of Scotland (1890) ; The school for scandal (1892) ; The wine-ghosts of Bremen (u.d.) ; The prince of Hades (u.d.) ; The doll and her friends ; or memoirs of the lady Seraphina (u.d.) ; Representative etchings (1887) ; Carmen : songs from the operas (1891) ;

Taught:
Students:

Member: Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, artist member & treasurer (several times) (1877) ; Palette Club, New York, NY, member ;
Exhibited with: National Academy of Design, New York, NY (1879, 1882, 1884) ; Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (1878, 1879, 1880, 1880 – memorial, 1880-1881) ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1884) ; Boston Art Club (1881, 1882) ; New York Etching Club, New York, NY (1888) ;
Awards:

Milestones: trained to be in business but left to pursue art ; Said to have not a “robust constitution” (physically weak) ;

Notes: Based on family names we believe his middle initial ‘M’ is for Marion ; The family history is extremely unclear ; the artist may have been married twice, had several more children and it is unclear his father ; His father should be the doctor but often it is listed as another Frank Gregory ; There are four Francis Marion Gregorys that have similar birth dates, therefore it might be that a family’s children all named their children the same after their father or an important relative ;