Artist William Benneville Rhodes, Danville

Portrait of Abigail Geisinger, by W. B. Rhodes.

William Benneville Rhodes [1860-1930] Danville, Pennsylvania

Rhodes was educated in the Danville public schools before attending Swathmore College.  In 1880 he went avraod to study art, and for 8 years was a student at a leading art school in Paris, where he received a medal of honor for his efficient work. 

Portrait Of Thomas Beaver By W. B. Rhodes

After completing his study at the art school he lived for several years at the Island of Jersey, Belgium, and Holland where he did his greatest work. 

Rhodes painting The Return Of The Carrier Pigeon was hung in a Paris Salon in 1886.  In 1930 that painting hung in the home of Milton K. Yorks of Bloomsburg.  His will, in 1930, left the Return Of the Carrier Pigeons to the Thomas Beaver Library, along with his painting The Gossips.

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These two paintings were in online auctions, attributed to William B. Rhodes.  I

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In 1908, Rhodes was restoring a 1689 Madonna and Child "which is undoubtedly the work of one of the old masters."  

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1930