Francis Coates Jones
1857 - 1932

Genre-figure painter Francis Coates Jones, born in Baltimore,
Maryland in 1857, first expressed an interest in art in 1876 when
visiting Edwin Abbey. Jones and his brother, H. Bolton Jones,
a painter of landscapes, then worked at Pont-Aven, Brittany
in an artists' colony attended by Robert Wylie and Thomas
Hovenden. Pont-Aven would soon become famous for Paul Gauguin
painting there.

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