Brooklyn Museum - Her First Born - Robert Reid - overall

Robert Lewis Reid (1862–1929) was an American Impressionist painter and muralist. Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art Students League, and in 1885 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. His early pictures were figures of French peasants, painted at Étaples.