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Elliott (JOHN an American artist born)

JOHN, an American artist, born in England in 1858. He was privately educated and studied art in Paris. His art work was chiefly portraits and mural decorations. Among the latter were ceiling decorations in the Boston Public Library, and a mural painting in the National Museum of Washington. In 1908 he served with the American Red Cross in the relief of the sufferers of the Messina earthquake, and was architect of the American village constructed for the sufferers of that catastrophe. He received decorations from the Italian and Spanish Governments.