Alfred T Ordway

Alfred T. Ordway 1821-1897. Landscape painter. Ordway studied portraiture under G.P.A. Healy and, in 1845, opened a studio in Tremont Row, Boston. He and his friend, Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), founded the Boston Art Club in 1854, and he served as its President in 1859. He was also a founder of the Boston Paint and Clay Club. He served as a Director of Exhibitions at the Boston Athenaeum 1856 to 1863. Ordway exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum (1855-64), the Art Institute of Chicago (1898), and the Mechanics Fair in Boston in 1878.